A Dickensian novel of life in eighteenth-century Scotland chronicles the ordeal of a young mother on trial for murdering her her own son. By the author of The Asking Price.

"Growing up in a Glasgow community haunted by Ireland's Troubles and religious divides, young Stevie finds his precarious family stability and sense of self threatened by his father's marching band's loyalist paramilitary ties." --

Private investigator Jasmine Sharp's father was murdered before she was born, and her mother went to self-sacrificing lengths in order to shield her from the world in which he moved. Since her mother's death, all she has been able to learn is his first name{u2014}and that only through a strange bond she has forged with the man who killed him: Glen Fallan. But when Fallan is arrested for the murder of a criminal her mother knew since childhood, Jasmine...

"Detective Inspector Costello has resigned. No notice, no goodbyes. Convinced that George Haggerty murdered his wife and son despite his cast-iron alibi, Costello has gone solo, determined to expose a ruthless killer without being hampered by police protocol. But is she right about Haggerty's guilt? And where has she disappeared to? DCI Colin Anderson has no time to ponder the loss of his partner of twenty years. With a badly beaten body found on...

The sequel to the author's The Good Provider, this novel follows Kirsty and Craig Nicholson deeper into the mean streets of late-Victorian Glasgow.

Glasgow's thick blanket of snow makes it difficult to discover clues to the identity of a knife-carrying murderer.