The Blood Tree (2012)
“It removed my insomnia without me noticing and left me flat out on the hotel room’s wide and welcoming double bed. Not that I slept well or for long. The photos of the eight murder victims kept flashing in front of me and I was awake again by five in the morning. So I called room service for a bucket of coffee, failed to resist the jumbo croissant with heather honey that they specially recommended – after all, Glasgow was picking up my tab – and got back to work.
Eight victims before the Edinbu...rgh teenager, the first nine weeks ago and the last ten days back. Alternately male, female. Murder scenes all over the city, from Milngavie and Chryston in the north to Nitshill and Pollokshields south of the Clyde. No obvious pattern as regards age, social background, work, sexuality, race, religious denomination, whatever. The only thing that linked the killings was the modus operandi – heavy blows to the side of the head with a blunt instrument and the same third-eye mutilation that I’d seen in Edinburgh.MoreLess
Eight victims before the Edinbu...rgh teenager, the first nine weeks ago and the last ten days back. Alternately male, female. Murder scenes all over the city, from Milngavie and Chryston in the north to Nitshill and Pollokshields south of the Clyde. No obvious pattern as regards age, social background, work, sexuality, race, religious denomination, whatever. The only thing that linked the killings was the modus operandi – heavy blows to the side of the head with a blunt instrument and the same third-eye mutilation that I’d seen in Edinburgh.MoreLess
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