In a cold, windswept field on the outskirts of Edinburgh, lies the brutally mutilated body of a young woman. As DI Rob Brennan looks at the tangled mass of limbs and blood, he feels his heart freeze.

Like Fiona Gow five years earlier, this girl has been strangled with her own stockings, sexually mutilated and her eyes have been gouged out. Is this the work of an Edinburgh Ripper? The press certainly think so.

Rob Brennan is determined to uncover the truth - however painful that might be. But truth is hard to come by in a world of police rivalries, media hysteria and copycat crime.

Thought I'd enjoyed this author before but had got him mixed up with another Tony - this one I've given up on once!

From the blurb this sounded right up my street but I hadn't got to the end of the prologue before I was picking fault (in this case, how far a guy walked from a car to take a pee irritated me! God knows why...) Things didn't improve with the introduction of the main characters. Nothing new here, characters & relationships we've seen so many times ie: DI & boss at loggerheads. This wouldn't have been a problem but I felt no engagement with the characters whatsoever. In particular Brennan's ponderings annoyed me with their air of pontificating & poor-little-me attitude. He wondered why he stayed in the job, yeah I wondered too as he wasn't half depressing me! As I found I was skimming rather than reading, I packed it in at the end of chapter 9, page 72. Well that maybe forty odd pages more than I managed with "Truth Lies Bleeding" but that's me done with this author.

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