HE ALWAYS KNEW.
That was the easy part.
Detective Superintendent Ian Dempster was a boy in the Glasgow schemes when he first understood that some things are decided before anyone knows there is a question. He joined the police to find out who was deciding them. He is still finding out.
Every time he gets close, the case closes. Every time he pushes, the file disappears. He has risen through the ranks anyway, promoted for what he cannot solve, trusted with everything except the one thing he has spent his life trying to prove.
THEY THINK HE STOPPED LOOKING.
He never stopped.
Thirty years of it are pinned to the wall of a flat nobody knows he keeps, a map of the dead, the vanished and the protected, climbing toward names no court will ever hear. He knows the truth. He has always known the truth. Knowing was never the problem.
A standalone novel set in the same world as the Blood on the Clyde trilogy.