Convinced that the original investigation five years ago got it all wrong, New Zealander Drew Jamieson wants Police Scotland\u2019s Historic Cases Unit to look more closely into the death of his brother, hotel manager Tom Jamieson, whose fatal tumble down Edinburgh\u2019s Scotsman Steps was ruled an accident. Using a computer image search, Drew claims to have identified Tom\u2019s killer as dodgy surgical instruments manufacturer Marcus Nicol. At the same time, a mudslide beneath the M73 motorway reveals the skeleton of freelance investigative journalist Sam Nimmo, who vanished more than 10 years ago after the death of Rachel Morrison, his pregnant fianc\u00e9e. Assumed then to be her killer, Nimmo\u2019s now revealed as another victim. The two cases couldn\u2019t possibly have any connection\u2014until an examination of Nimmo\u2019s research just before his death reveals that he was working on an accusation of bribery at soccer games by professional gamblers and the rape of an anonymous guest shortly after a high-class party thrown by Lord Haig Striven-Douglass in support of Scottish independence. It turns out that Justified Sinners, the secretive monthly men\u2019s book club Nimmo had joined months before his death, had lost two of its members, including Tom Jamieson, to untimely deaths. Calling on experts of every stripe to help identify and pursue new leads, Karen and her team labor to connect the dots as she waits anxiously to hear whether Rafiq, the Syrian refugee physician she\u2019s come to love, can get a Canadian passport to travel to Scotland.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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