The Innocent Dead
by Lin Anderson
2020-12-30 04:00:57
A gripping new crime novel by Lin Anderson featuring forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod, who is tasked with solving the case of a young girl who went missing forty-five years ago.Mary McIntyre''s disappearance tore the local community apart, inflicting...
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A gripping new crime novel by Lin Anderson featuring forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod, who is tasked with solving the case of a young girl who went missing forty-five years ago.Mary McIntyre''s disappearance tore the local community apart, inflicting wounds that still prove raw for those who knew her. So when the present-day discovery of a child?s remains are found in a peat bog south of Glasgow, it seems the decades-old mystery may finally be solved.Called in to excavate the body, forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod uses the advances made in forensic science since Mary?s vanishing to determine what really happened all those years ago - and who was responsible.One key person had been Karen Marshall who was devastated by her best friend?s abduction. Questioned by the police at the time had led to a dead end and the case soon went cold.Now the news of the discovered body brings the nightmares back. But added to that, memories long-buried by Karen are returning, memories that begin to reveal her role in her friend?s disappearance and perhaps even the identity of the killer...The Innocent Dead is the fifteenth novel in Lin Anderson''s Rhona MacLeod crime series.Praise for the Rhona MacLeod series:"Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod has become one of the most satisfying characters in modern crime fiction ? honourable, inquisitive and yet plagued by doubts and, sometimes, fears...As ever, the landscape is stunningly evoked and MacLeod?s decency and humanity shine through on every page." -Daily Mail"The best Scottish crime series since Rebus." -Daily Record"The bleak landscape is beautifully described, giving this popular series a new lease of life." -Sunday Times
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