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Description: A new crime series set in the brooding landscape of the Scottish borders from the author of the Celcius Daly series. Not long out of the fast-track training course at Edinburgh's police college, Detective Sergeant Carla Herron is about to be tested to breaking point. She's been called to Deepwell psychiatric hospital in the Scottish borders to interview a patient who has confessed to the murder of one of the hospital's psychotherapists. The confession is vividly detailed, but for a man locked in a secure ward and under 24-hour surveillance, it is also utterly impossible. So why can't the supposedly murdered psychotherapist be contacted? Why are the hospital staff so secretive, so difficult to work with? Why have other Deepwell patients have made disturbingly similar confessions over the past year? Against the advice of her superiors, Carla delves deeper into the hospital's past and is plunged into a labyrinth of jealousies, lies and hallucinations. Struggling to separate fact from fantasy, Carla embarks on a chilling trail through the bleak uplands and dark forests of the Scottish borders, every step taking her closer to a final - deadly - reckoning. 'Superbly original' SUNDAY EXPRESS. 'Carefully wrought, often lyrical prose, always rich with foreboding' BOOKLIST. Review: PRAISE FOR ANTHONY J. QUINN: 'Beautiful writing about ugly events with a plot that's pleasingly serpentine' Sunday Times. 'Superbly original ... Among the best of the many crime novels that have tackled the Troubles' Sunday Express. 'Beautifully written ... A novel that demonstrates how capacious the crime fiction genre can be' Independent. Author Biography: Anthony J. Quinn is an Irish author and journalist. He was born in County Tyrone and studied English at Queen's University, Belfast. His first novel, Disappeared, was a Daily Mail crime novel of the year. From the author of the Celcius Daly novels, a new crime series set in the brooding landscape of the Scottish borders.