Frank Massey disappeared seven years ago and, finally, his family can try to lay his ghost to rest by completing the death in absentia process. They might have missed him, but Stark certainly hasn’t.
Meanwhile, Massey’s son, Graham, has reluctantly agreed to help his boss, Charlie Tanner, appease a couple of gangsters by intimidating some shopkeepers. However, it all goes horribly wrong when Graham asks an old friend to help out, and he takes things too far.
Stark starts to investigate crimes that seem to have racially-motivated overtones but, when the involvement of the Malik brothers is revealed, the case is taken out of his hands. And the new senior investigating officer is someone he knows very well.
Revenge will be carried out, violence will be perpetrated, and shocking secrets will be revealed.
Remember, what’s in the past doesn’t always stay there.
I'm a Scottish person, married, with one daughter and currently living in Dunblane, Scotland.
I've written seven novels, so far: mostly crime fiction. The DI Adam Stark series has four books out now and a fifth under construction. There are a couple of standalone crime novels and a post-apocalyptic, Scottish horror. They should all be listed below. My main literary influences are Irvine Welsh, Chris Brookmyre and Stephen King. As a result, my stuff is often dark, violent, and peppered with profanity, but there's a lot of humour too.