WHO IS TO BLAME WHEN NOBODY IS INNOCENT?

The papers want bloodstream.

The force wants results.

The law must be served, whatever the cost.

August 1973. The Glasgow medications trade is booming and Bobby March, the city’s own rock-star hero, offers just OD’ed in a central hotel.

Alice Winters is twelve years of age, lonely. And missing.

In the mean time the niece of McCoy’s boss has fallen in with a poor crowd and when she goes AWOL, McCoy is asked – from the books – to find her.

McCoy has a hunch. But will he have enough time?