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Автор: Caro Ramsay
Издательство: Ingram
Серия: Anderson and Costello thrillers
Жанр произведения: Контркультура
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isbn: 9781838851026
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      Caro Ramsay is the Glaswegian author of the critically acclaimed Anderson and Costello series, the first of which, Absolution, was shortlisted for the CWA’s New Blood Dagger for best debut of the year. The ninth book in the series, The Suffering of Strangers, was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2018.

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      ALSO BY CARO RAMSAY

      The Anderson and Costello series Absolution Singing to the Dead Dark Water The Blood of Crows The Night Hunter The Tears of Angels Rat Run Standing Still The Suffering of Strangers

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      This paperback edition first published in Great Britain, the USA and Canada in 2020

      by Black Thorn, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd,

      14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

      Distributed in the USA by Publishers Group West and in

      Canada by Publishers Group Canada

      First published in 2017 by Severn House Publishers Ltd,

      Eardley House, 4 Uxbridge Street, London W8 7SY

      This digital edition first published in 2020 by Canongate Books

       blackthornbooks.com

      Copyright © Caro Ramsay, 2017

      The right of Caro Ramsay to be identified as the

      author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance

       with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Except where actual historical events and characters are being described for the storyline of this novel, all situations in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is purely coincidental.

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available on

      request from the British Library

      ISBN 978 1 83885 101 9

      eISBN 978 1 83885 102 6

      CONTENTS

       Prologue

       Chapter One

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

      Character List:

      Police Scotland Glasgow

      DI Winifred Prudence Costello

      DCI Colin Anderson

      DS Viktor Mulholland

      DC Gordon Wyngate

      DC Donald McCaffrey

      ACC Mitchum

      DCI Diane Mathieson (Complaints and Internal Investigatons)

      DI Bannon

      Police Scotland Port MacDuff

      Former SIO Lachlan McRae

      DCI Alistair Patrick (married to Wilma)

      DC Morna Taverner (married to Neil, mother of Finn)

      Anderson Family

      Brenda (married to Colin)

      Claire and Peter (Colin’s children)

      Moses (Colin’s grandson, child of Mary Jane – Anderson’s daughter)

      Haggerty Family

      (Oscar Duguid)

      Abigail Haggerty nee Duguid nee Abernethy (deceased)

      George Haggerty

      Mary Jane (daughter of Colin Anderson and Sally Braithwaite, mother to baby Moses, deceased)

      Malcolm (son of Abigail and George, deceased)

      Valerie Abernethy (sister to Abigail)

      Archie Walker (chief fiscal, Costello’s lover, married to Pippa Walker, godfather to Valerie)

      Braithwaite Case

      Sally Braithwaite nee Logan (mother of Mary Jane, deceased)

      Andrew Braithwaite (Sally’s widower)

      Kissel Case

      Bernadette Kissel (mother of Daniel Kissel)

      Daniel Kissel (son of Bernadette Kissel, deceased)

       FAO A.C.C. D M Mitchum

       Date As Postmark

       M.I.T.

       Partickhill Road,

       Partickhill

       Glasgow

      Dear Sir,

       Ref; Detective Inspector W. P. Costello

       Please accept this letter in lieu of my resignation with immediate effect.

       I’d like to say that this is a decision I have thought long and hard about. It isn’t. It was a decision made for me by those who believe that competent policing is having meetings and moving bits of paper around. Effective policing would have prevented the tragedy at Balcarres Avenue where a seven-year-old boy and his mother were stabbed to death. His name was Malcolm. Her name was Abigail.

       He liked Glasgow Celtic and Star Wars. She was a qualified doctor. They are not statistics.