Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie heads up Police Scotland’s Historic Case Unit. She receives a phone call to let her know that DNA from a young joyrider has hit a familial match on the database with an old, cold crime case. It shows a match with DNA left at the scene of a rape and murder 20 years earlier. This looks to be a straightforward case of just finding the joyrider’s father, but it turns out not to be quite that easy.
She is also drawn into the current ongoing case of the death of Gabriel Abbott. She feels the investigating officer is too eager to sign it off as a suicide when there are things which don’t quite add up and it could be that Gabriel was murdered. This in turn leads her to look at the unsolved murder of Caroline Abbott, Gabriel’s mother, who was killed when a plane she and three other passengers were travelling in was blown up by a bomb. It was assumed to be a terrorist hit by the IRA but this was never proved. When Karen is warned away from the case she is more determined than ever to find own what happened.
I have previously read Wire in the Blood which is a Tony Hill story.
I have the following titles on by bookshelf to read:
Killing the Shadows
Trick of the Dark 
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