The third consecutive Number 1 bestselling crime novel from the author of the DI Logan McRae series and Birthdays for the Dead. The first body is chained to a stake: strangled, and stabbed, with a burning tyre around its neck. But is this a gangland execution or something much darker? When another body turns up, it looks as if the similarities between these murders and the plot of a bestselling novel are more than just a coincidence...