Book description
Caro Ramsay's Absolution is the first in her much-loved
Anderson and Costello series.
The Crucifixion Killer is stalking Glasgow ... leaving
victims' mutilated bodies in a Christ-like pose. DCI Alan McAlpine - a
renowned and successful police officer - is drafted in to lead the
hunt, supported by local officers DI Anderson and DS Costello.
But the past holds horrific memories for McAlpine. He last worked
this beat some twenty years earlier, when he was assigned to guard a
woman - nameless and faceless after a sadistic acid attack - at a
Glasgow hospital. An obsession was born at that hospital room that has
never quite left McAlpine . . . and now it seems to be resurfacing.
For a reason.
As the chase to halt the gruesome murders intensifies, so Anderson
and Costello find chilling cause for concern uncomfortably close to
home . . .
Reissued with a stunning new package, Caro Ramsay's Anderson &
Costello thrillers have been widely recognised as one of the most
significant new series in the genre in recent years and Ramsay's
utterly unique investigators are ready to become the nation's
favourite Scottish cop duo. Absolution is the amazing opening
to this stunning series. Subsequent titles include Dark Water
and Singing to the Dead. Fans of Ian Rankin and Val McDermid
will love this series.
Praise for Caro Ramsay:
'Brilliant in twisting the tension tauter with each page' Guardian
'Ramsay handles her characters with aplomb, the dialogue
crackles and the search for the killer has surprising twists and
turns' Observer
'Many shivers in store for readers, followed by a shattering
climax' The Times
Caro Ramsay was born in Glasgow and now lives in a village on
the west coast of Scotland. Absolution is her first novel,
which was shortlisted for the CWA's New Blood Dagger for best debut of
the year. This success was followed by two further DI Anderson and DS
Costello novels, Singing to the Dead and Dark Water. The
fourth book in the same series, The Blood of Crows, is also
released this summer.
Caro Ramsay was born in Glasgow and now lives in a village on the
West Coast of Scotland.
Absolution
is her first novel. Her second,
Tambourine Girls
, will publish in Autumn 2008.
