THE BLOOD TREE

Independent Edinburgh: a tourist's paradise, a citizen's paradox. It's 2026. The birth-rate is down in the Council's "perfect city" and gangs of disaffected kids roam the streets. A break-in at the former Scottish Parliament archive is rapidly followed by two gruesome murders. Renegade investigator Quintilian Dalrymple is called in to establish a pattern and to stop the roots of violence spreading. But Quint's investigation is driven in a different direction when Edinburgh's brightest teenagers are abducted to the much-feared democratic city-state of Glasgow. What Quint finds there will change his life forever..