Crow Bait (32 page)

The third in the compelling Jimmy Costello series.

An intelligent and well-written thriller.
THE HERALD

Eye for an Eye

Frank Muir

ISBN 978-1-905222-56-8 PBK £9.99

One psychopath. One killer. The Stabber.

Six victims. Six wife abusers. Each stabbed to death through their left eye.

The cobbled lanes and back streets of St Andrews provide the setting for these brutal killings. But six unsolved murders and mounting censure from the media force Detective Inspector Andy Gilchrist off the case. Driven by his fear of failure, desperate to redeem his career and reputation, Gilchrist vows to catch The Stabber alone.

What is the significance of the left eye? How does an old photograph of an injured cat link the past to the present? And what exactly is our little group? Digging deeper into the world of a psychopath, Gilchrist fears he is up against the worst kind of murderer – a serial killer on the verge of mental collapse.

Everything I look for in a crime novel.
LOUISE WELSH

Rebus did it for Edinburgh. Laidlaw did it for Glasgow. Gilchrist might just be the bloke to put St Andrews on the crime fiction map.
DAILY RECORD

Hand for a Hand

Frank Muir

ISBN 978-1906817-51-0 PBK £6.99

A bright new recruit to the swelling army of Scots crime writers.
QUINTIN JARDINE

An amputated hand is found in a bunker, its lifeless fingers clutching a note addressed to DCI Andy Gilchrist. The note bears only one word: Murder.

When other body parts with messages attached are discovered, Gilchrist finds himself living every policeman’s worst nightmare – with a sadistic killer out for revenge.

Forced to confront the ghosts of his past, Gilchrist must solve the cryptic clues and find the murderer before the next victim, whose life means more to Gilchrist that his own, is served up piece by slaughtered piece. 

Hand for a Hand
is the second in Frank Muir’s DI Gilchrist series.

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