Witness the Dead: A Chilling Serial Killer Thriller from the Sunday Times Bestselling Author by Craig Robertson

Craig Robertson . Unknown Year . English

A chilling thriller from Scotland&;s hottest crime writer&;based on actual events that terrorized Glasgow in the 1960s. A message from the grave. A case still unsolved. A city haunted by its sins. Scotland 1972. Glasgow is haunted by a murderer nicknamed Red Silk&;a feared serial killer who hunts his victims in the city&;s nightclubs. The case remains unsolved but Archibald Atto, later imprisoned for other murders, is thought to be guilty. In modern-day Glasgow, DS Rachel Narey is called to a gruesome crime scene at the city&;s Necropolis. The body of a young woman lies stretched out over a tomb. Her body bears a three-letter message from her killer. Now retired, former detective Danny Neilson spots a link between the new murder and those he investigated in 1972&;details that no copycat killer could have known about. But Atto is still behind bars. Must Danny face up to his fears that they never caught their man? Determined finally to crack the case, Danny, along with his nephew, police photographer Tony Winter, pays Atto a visit. But they soon discover that they are going to need the combined efforts of police forces past and present to bring a twisted killer to justice.

Categories: Crime

About the Author

A former journalist, Craig Robertson had a 20-year career with a Scottish Sunday newspaper before becoming a full-time author. He interviewed three Prime Ministers, reported on major stories including 9/11, Dunblane, the Omagh bombing and the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. He was pilloried on breakfast television, beat Oprah Winfrey to a major scoop, spent time on Death Row in the USA and dispensed polio drops in the backstreets of India. His gritty crime novels are set on the mean streets of contemporary Glasgow. His first novel, Random, was shortlisted for the 2010 CWA New Blood Dagger, longlisted for the 2011 Crime Novel of the Year and was a Sunday Times bestseller. Murderabilia was longlisted for the 2017 Crime Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize. The Photographer was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize as was Watch Him Die which was also longlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger. The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill was a Waterstones book of the month, and The Trials of Marjorie Crowe was longlisted for both the McIlvanney Prize and the CWA Twisted Dagger. He now shares his time between Scotland and California and can usually be found on a plane somewhere over the Atlantic.

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