Cowboys and Indians

A broken body. A secret with deep roots.

Just months into his new role, Detective Sergeant Scott Cullen of Police Scotland’s Edinburgh Major Investigation Team is torn by the trials of being a manager. Working a series of serious crimes in Edinburgh puzzling police, assisting the new Sexual Offences Unit, Cullen struggles with his own personal demons.

When a bloodied corpse is found in the shadow of Edinburgh’s Dean Bridge, Cullen is back to his bread and butter. But all he has are questions. Who is the victim? Did he fall or was he pushed? And why is he handcuffed?

Worse, as the victim is identified, the case only gets murkier as Cullen is sucked into the depths of the city’s lucrative financial services sector, facing up to some old enemies and creating some new ones. As new leads take them no further forward, with far too many suspects, Cullen must conquer a world where nobody trusts anyone and all are out for themselves. Can Cullen catch a killer in a cut-throat world where anyone who murder just to get ahead?