On an Outgoing Tide
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Publisher Description
Two murders, forty years apart. What links them? Detectives Anderson & Costello undertake their most baffling investigation to date.
The body is found in the early hours of the morning, drifting lifelessly on the outgoing tide. Twenty-three-year-old medical student Aasha Ariti had been enjoying a night out to celebrate the end of lockdown. Anthony Poole, the last person to have seen her alive, is the prime suspect.
Before detectives Anderson and Costello can make further headway, they are pulled off the case to investigate the murder of a pensioner in his own home. The body of eighty-one-year-old Jimmy Pearcey reveals evidence of prolonged, excruciating torture in the hours before he died. Of one thing DCI Anderson is certain: this killing was very close and very personal. But the victim was a loner, without friends or relatives.
As they dig deeper however, the two detectives uncover a number of secrets in the dead man's past. Secrets that link to another murder more than forty years before. What really happened on 21st June 1978? Someone is determined to ensure that Anderson and Costello never find out. Whatever it takes.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Ramsay's intricately plotted 12th mystery featuring Det. Chief Insp. Colin Anderson and Det. Insp. Winifred "Freddie" Costello (after 2020's The Red, Red Snow), the two Glasgow detectives look into the death of 23-year-old Aasha Ariti, whose body was found floating in the Firth of Clyde the morning after she celebrated her first night out post- Covid-19 lockdown at a nightclub. Social media newsmongers are quick to label her death a hate crime because she was of Asian descent. The pair next investigate the torture murder of 81-year-old Jimmy Pearcey. Rumors that Pearcey was a pedophile surface, and soon locals are demanding that the police protect their neighborhood, and journalists are threatening to expose a police cover-up. That Pearcey was living under an assumed name adds fuel to the fire, and leads to Anderson and Costello finding a link between Pearcey's death and a murder that took place in 1978. Ramsay does a masterly job of weaving the cases together around the theme of lies masquerading as truth. This riveting police procedural is sure to please fans and newcomers alike.
