Cold Open: A Scottish Crime Thriller

When the remains of a young woman are found at the construction site of the new Govan-Partick Bridge, it appears to close a twenty-year-old cold case from DCI John Lomond’s earliest days as a detective.

But a retired detective – Lomond’s former boss – has a controversial theory that cost him his career.

This was no isolated case.

And the truth involves dozens of other cold cases, and an extraordinary cover-up by some of the most powerful police and legal...