Absolution

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Caro Ramsays Absolution" is the first in her much-loved " Anderson & Costello" series. The Crucifixion Killer is stalking Glasgow...leaving victims mutilated bodies in a Christ-like pose. DCI Alan Mc Alpine
- a renowned & successful police officer
- is drafted in to lead the hunt supported by local officers DI Anderson & DS Costello. But the past holds horrific memories for Mc Alpine. He last worked this beat some twenty years earlier when he was assigned to guard a woman
- nameless & faceless after a sadistic acid attack
- at a Glasgow hospital. An obsession was born at that hospital room that has never quite left Mc Alpine.. .and now it seems to be resurfacing. For a reason. As the chase to halt the gruesome murders intensifies so Anderson & Costello find chilling cause for concern uncomfortably close to home... Reissued with a stunning new package Caro Ramsays Anderson & Costello thrillers have been widely recognised as one of the most significant new series in the genre in recent years & Ramsays utterly unique investigators are ready to become the nations favourite Scottish cop duo. " Absolution" is the amazing opening to this stunning series. Subsequent titles include " Dark Water" & " Singing to the Dead". Fans of Ian Rankin & Val Mc Dermid will love this series. Praise for Caro Ramsay: " Brilliant in twisting the tension tauter with each page". (" Guardian"). " Ramsay handles her characters with aplomb the dialogue crackles & the search for the killer has surprising twists & turns". (" Observer"). " Many shivers in store for readers followed by a shattering climax". (" The Times"). Caro Ramsay was born in Glasgow & now lives in a village on the west coast of Scotl&. " Absolution" is her first novel which was shortlisted for the CWAs New Blood Dagger for best debut of the year. This success was followed by two further DI Anderson & DS Costello novels " Singing to the Dead" & " Dark Water". The fourth book in the same series " The Blood of Crows" is also released this summer."