<p><b>There’s no point screaming – we've only just begun . . .</b><br><br>It’s not going well for NE Division: half the force is off sick, all leave’s been cancelled, someone’s firebombed a migrant hostel and there’s a <i>massive</i> climate change protest march happening this Saturday. With officers dropping like flies, Detective Inspector Logan McRae has to kick off a major murder investigation with a skeleton staff of misfits, idiots and malingerers – AKA: DS Steel’s team – until the top brass can arrange backup from other divisions.<br><br>But as bad as everything seems, there’s something <i>far</i> more sinister lurking in the heat-haze of a sweltering Aberdeen summer: something that’s been building for years. Something that longs to sing its horrible song . . .<br><br>And it’s clea
