Edinburgh is about to become the home of the first Scottish parliament in 300 years. As political passions run high, DI John
...Recovering from the recent death of his wife in a cliff fall, Tony Sheridan goes to stay with her sister & her husband at their house in Rutl&. The house, called Otherways, is in some senses a character in the story: a strange, circular, moted construction dating from Edwardian times. Disturbed by memories of his wife & a growing attraction to her sister, & troubled by vivid dreams, Sheridan learns that a murder committed at the house in 1939 still has resonances for those living in the neighbourhood, including the sister of the murdered woman. There is a scandal surrounding the murderer