Grace Monroe
Жанр:современная зарубежная литература
Язык книги:Английский
Тип:Электронная книга
Издательство:HarperCollins
Дата публикации:15.08.2023
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О книге: The gripping new novel featuring unorthodox Edinburgh lawyer Brodie McClennan, who must investigate a ritualistic murder in the Highlands in order to clear her name.A woman is lured to a lonely ruin in the Scottish Highlands and strangled almost to the point of death. As she prays for mercy, her hopes are shattered when her unseen assailant begins to carve her face, and she is left alone to bleed her lifes blood into a shallow grave.In Edinburgh, 29–year–old lawyer Brodie McLennan is coming to terms with the discovery of the family she never knew she had. She must also fight the increasing resentment of the Edinburgh Bar. As the complaints to the Law Society about Brodie pile up, her grandfather and legal legend Lord MacGregor fears that Brodie is in danger and advises that to protect her reputation, she should become a crown prosecutor-accept silk–something that rankles with Brodies natural inclination to protect the underdog. When Lord McGregors prophecy is fulfilled and Brodie is implicated in the disappearance of a fellow lawyer, she realises he is right–she is now a marked woman.Then the missing woman is found in a remote mental hospital, the walls of her cell smeared in blood, the name Brodie written over and over…Back in Edinburgh, a knife is found with Brodies fingerprints. It seems that someone is out to stop Brodies rise to the top–at any cost…