Detective Catherine Mc Leod was always taught that in Glasgow they dont do whodunit. They do score-settling. They do vendettas. They do petty revenge. They do cant-miss-whodunit. Its a lesson that has served her well but Glasgow is also a dangerous place to make assumptions. Either way she looks at it she recognises that the discovery of a dead drug-dealer in a back alley is merely a portent of further deaths to come. Elsewhere in the city aspiring actress Jasmine Sharp is reluctantly
- & incompetently
- earning a crust working for her uncle Jims private investigation business. When Jim goes missing Jasmine has to take on the investigator mantle for real & her only lead points to Glen Fallan a gangland enforcer & professional assassin whose reputation is rendered only slightly less terrifying by having been dead for twenty years. Cautiously tracing an accomplished killers footsteps Jasmine stumbles into a web of corruption & decades-hidden secrets that could tear apart an entire police force
- if she can stay alive long enough to tell the tale.