A powerful new stand-alone novel by Scotland's princess of crime, Denise Mina.
On a still morning in September 1998, forensic psychiatrist Dr Susie Harriot left her husband giving their young daughter breakfast and drove for eight hours until she reached Cape Wrath. There, in an abandoned cottage on a remote Highland hillside, she mutilated and murdered the notorious serial killer, Andrew Gow and his glamorous new wife Donna.
Responsible for a series of sadistic, brutal sexual slayings, Gow had conducted a reign of terror throughout Glasgow in the mid-nineties. Preying on prostitutes and committing atrocities so terrible that the details can only now be revealed, he'd been dubbed 'the Riverside Ripper' by the Scottish press.
Digging through his wife's papers in her locked study at home, Lachlan Harriot soon discovers details of the case that have evaded the police and begins his own investigation into her conviction. The diaries, reproduced in their entirety here, consist of Susie's files and notes together with Harriot's own speculation, and make disturbing reading.
The protracted copyright and privacy cases brought by Mr Harriot against both Denise Mina and Dr Morris Welsh have now been resolved, making publication possible. These diaries remain a shocking warning of the potential consequences of passing on a hard drive without having all files professionally scrubbed.
