LONGLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE 2018 'Brilliant . . . twisting the tension tauter with each page' Guardian 'The dialogue crackles and the search for the killer has surprising twists and turns' Observer DI Costello faces a disturbing child abduction case; a six-week-old has been stolen and replaced with another baby. The swap took cold and meticulous planning, so Costello treads the seedy, Glaswegian backstreets for answers. She's convinced that more than one young life is at stake. Promoted into the Cold Case Unit, ...
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LONGLISTED FOR THE McILVANNEY PRIZE 2018 'Brilliant . . . twisting the tension tauter with each page' Guardian 'The dialogue crackles and the search for the killer has surprising twists and turns' Observer DI Costello faces a disturbing child abduction case; a six-week-old has been stolen and replaced with another baby. The swap took cold and meticulous planning, so Costello treads the seedy, Glaswegian backstreets for answers. She's convinced that more than one young life is at stake. Promoted into the Cold Case Unit, Colin Anderson reviews the unsolved rape of a young mother, whose attacker is still out there. Each case pulls Anderson and Costello in the same direction and, as their paths keep crossing, they begin to suspect their separate cases are dangerously entwined.
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This was a very entertaining, pacy and gripping story concerning baby farming, murder and surrogacy. A baby is stolen and DI Costello is drawn into this current case which overlaps with Colin Anderson's cold case and become a tangled web, with heartbreaking conclusions.
The characters are well-drawn and the back stories of their lives are drawn into the pattern very convincingly.
I really enjoyed the book and could not put it down. It drew on my sympathies and I found some of the social workers' stories to be difficult to read. Overall a cracking read.
Thank you to NetGalley and Black Thorn, Canongate Books, for allowing me access to the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
