The Devil Stone
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
In the village of Cronchie, a wealthy family are found brutally murdered. The Devil Stone, an heirloom rumoured to bring death if removed from their home, is the only thing stolen. The key suspects are known satanists. But when the investigating officer disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to investigate.
Caplan knows she is being punished for a minor misdemeanour when she is seconded to the Highlands, but she’s confident she can quickly solve the murders and return home to her fractious family. But as she closes in on the truth, it is suddenly her life, not her career, that is in danger.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Det. Constable Christine Caplan, the star of this solid series launch from Scottish author Ramsay (the Anderson and Costello series), is dispatched to Otterburn, a village outside Glasgow, to help solve the murder of five members of the wealthy McGregor family in a satanic ritual. The police know the only item missing from the murder scene is a particular heirloom, the Devil Stone, which worshippers believe brings its owner great power and riches. Suspects include some well-known local devil worshippers and the one surviving McGregor, who's gone missing. When Caplan's new commanding officer, Det. Chief Insp. Bob Oswald, who was leading the investigation, disappears, she takes charge. Recently demoted for losing evidence in her last case, Caplan knows that solving the crime will make or break her career, and to do so she must partner with her police investigator ex-lover, if she can trust him. The action initially moves slowly as Ramsay lays down the complicated background and introduces a host of lightly sketched characters, but the disparate pieces eventually fall into place as the plot builds to a tidy ending. Fans of contemporary British police procedurals will want to have a look.
