This story start with a grim scene, a 13 year old girl is in squalid conditions, a house , bed and a midwife, the girl gives birth and the midwife pushes a needle into the girls arm. It is not a soother it's a massive overdose of heroin.
Cut to modern day, Brodie McClennan is a young lawyer in Edinburgh, attractive and a little *out of the box when it comes to protecting her clients. She is called at 1 in the morning down to the local station to defend a client, grumpily she goes not expecting the media interest.
Her the client is a notorious dominatrix Kailash Coutts (the woman responsible for almost putting her firm out of business and her on the street) , Kailash stands accused of murder the victim is very high profile- Alistair McGregor -the highest Law Lord in Scotland.
Things are not all they seem though and soon she finds herself embroiled in a nasty plot involving the seedier side of life and the master manipulators of the Scottish judicial system along with several members of the Knights Templar dodgy boys club(trousers down, smear your legs in marmite and throw cats at the nearest person- you get the idea)
This is a thoughtful book with a well rounded out plot and a lead character that many can identify with. However the story does have more twists than a pretzel and at times the subject matter is little close to the bone. You enter a world inhabited by powerful men with sadistic perversions and a series of grisly child murders from the past rise to the surface as you further into the tale.
The pace is good, but at times you do have to put the book down just to digest what you have just read. Overall I am in awe that someone has tackled such sensitive material with such panach. Overall a good read but you have been warned.
vadagh
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