Material Evidence

This is the first novel in a crime/mystery series set in a fictional town in north-east Scotland called Cairnburgh. The books feature Detective Chief Inspector Jack Carston, happily married to his photographer wife, Kath, whose good humour and common sense act as a perfect stabilising mechanism which makes him more able to accept the depressing evidence of man's inhumanity to man with which he's constantly confronted in his job.

Stephanie Burnham's mutilated body is discovered by her husband...