Heretic, The

Description:From the award-winning author comes a much-anticipated sequel to the Scottish Crime Book of the Year The Quaker....

Glasgow 1975

A deadly fire...

An arson attack on a Glasgow warehouse causes the deaths of a young mother and child.

Police suspect it’s the latest act in a brutal gang warfare that’s tearing the city apart - one that DI Duncan McCormack has been tasked with stopping.

A brutal murder...

Five years ago he was walking on water as the cop who tracked down a notorious serial killer. But he made powerful enemies, and when a mutilated body is found in a Tradeston slum, McCormack is assigned a case that no one wants. The dead man is wearing a masonic ring, though, and Duncan realizes the victim is not the down-and-out his boss had first assumed.

A catastrophic explosion....

As McCormack looks into both crimes, the investigations are disrupted by a shocking event.