The Granite City is ready to burn, and all it takes is a single spark . . .
In the heat of a blistering summer, Aberdeen-s police are struggling: half the force is off sick, leave has been cancelled, someone-s firebombed a hotel full of migrants, and there-s a massive protest march happening this Saturday.
With officers dropping like flies, Detective Inspector Logan McRae is forced to juggle cases and run a major murder investigation with a skeleton staff of misfits, idiots and malingerers until the top brass can arrange back-up from other divisions.
It doesn-t help that the Aberdeen Examiner has just been bought by Natasha Agapova, a tabloid media tycoon hell-bent on blaming local police for everything. And she-s more than happy to fan the flames.
But, as bad as everything seems, it-s all about to get much, much worse . . .
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