Fatal Last Words

It’s August and the Edinburgh International Book Festival is in full swing. The world of books is focused on Charlotte Square Gardens so it’s a considerable embarrassment when a successful crime writers and key member of the Scottish Parliament is found dead in the author tent. But is it natural causes? DCC Bob Skinner on the edge of a career-defining moment doesn’t need this in his life. But the victim’s phone was tapped and a brother officer has a threatening visitor. A second victim begs the question: have the authors become targets themselves? Skinner is going to have to dig deep to solve it even as his own world implodes and a famous friendship is shattered for ever…