A Scottish crime novel from the Death on the Clyde series by Hunter J Walker.
Douglas Ashburner’s start as a Detective Constable in Glasgow’s elite Major Incident Unit is not going well. Then, one quiet Saturday morning, his boss, the acerbic DI Collins, takes it into her head to investigate an assault outside one of Glasgow’s sleazier pubs run by one of the city’s more notorious crime families. When he follows Collins into the pub his problems multiply when he notices the attractive daughter of a dead gangster and worse still she notices him. They both find Cupid’s arrow is sharp and cares nothing for the consequences. Also the shallow waters of the river Clyde hold a grisly secret waiting to be discovered by an innocent jogger and a sequence of events is set in motion that will affect the rest of Ashburner’s career
Douglas Ashburner’s start as a Detective Constable in Glasgow’s elite Major Incident Unit is not going well. Then, one quiet Saturday morning, his boss, the acerbic DI Collins, takes it into her head to investigate an assault outside one of Glasgow’s sleazier pubs run by one of the city’s more notorious crime families. When he follows Collins into the pub his problems multiply when he notices the attractive daughter of a dead gangster and worse still she notices him. They both find Cupid’s arrow is sharp and cares nothing for the consequences. Also the shallow waters of the river Clyde hold a grisly secret waiting to be discovered by an innocent jogger and a sequence of events is set in motion that will affect the rest of Ashburner’s career
