- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Collins Crime; First Edition edition (16 Jan 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 000232220X
- ISBN-13: 978-0002322201
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.6 x 2.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,035,536 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Turnbull continues his series of solid Scottish police procedurals (Big Money, etc.) with a case involving the gory murders of two Glasgow prostitutes. Stephanie Craigellachie's street life is hard, remunerative but barely sufficient to support her drug habit. Then she's found stabbed to death in an alley, and the killing rings a bell with police detective Ray Sussock, bringing to mind brutal James Purdue - who was found guilty of a young woman's murder, jailed for ten years, released, and unheard from for another ten. Sussock had thought him insane at the time of his conviction; and with the discovery of the ferociously mutilated body of another prostitute, Toni Durham, he's sure Purdue is their man. Toni was involved in the drug trade and the making of porno movies - for which she'd recruited Stephanie. The trail to Purdue will mn through raunchy bars, tattoo parlors, and talks with a clutch of streetwalkers and an informer named Tuesday Noon - all of it making a vivid picture of Glasgow's underside, along with an acid sketch of Stephanie's coldly proper fosterparents. The villain is known; his capture provides a satisfying if rather flat finale to a wellcrafted, unsentimental, and absorbing offering for procedural fans. (Kirkus Reviews)
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Officers of Glasgow's P Divison investigate the brutal knifing of a young prostitute in a police procedural in which the slender threads of evidence are gradully twined into a noose.
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Modern Glasgow police procedural
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Peter Turnbull is a master at describing the squalor of Clydeside. In this book a body odf a woman in heels is discovered 10.00 pm, the knife still in her throat. She had been a heroin addict and had the words `I belong to Dino' tattooed on her groin. The men of P division gradually build up a picture of the dead girl, her associates, family, lifestyle.
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