The first thriller in the No.1 bestselling DS Logan McRae series.

Nothing keeps a crime concealed like fear…

‘Stuart MacBride’s thrillers just keep obtaining better’ Express

‘You can not be an eyewitness if I slice out your eye…’

Someone’s preying on Aberdeen’s growing Polish population. The pattern is definitely generally the same: males abandoned on building sites, hardly alive, their eyes gouged out and the sockets burned.

Using the victims too scared to talk, and the only witness a paedophile who’s away from home, Grampian Police is getting nowhere fast. The attacks are brutal, they continue happening, and quickly DS Logan McRae must decide how considerably he’s prepared to bend the rules to get a result.

The Granite Town is around the brink of gang warfare; the looking into team are dogged by allegations of corruption; and Logan’s going to come towards the attention of Aberdeen’s many notorious crime lord…