This is the seventh in the Logan McRae series, featuring an Aberdonian detective sergeant. Joining the series so late I find all the continuing characters fully rounded and full of interesting idiosyncracies - Logan's relationship to his DI's baby daughter, for instance. At heart, though, it's a police procedural and as fine an example of Tartan Noir as you're ever likely to meet.
Reality show infant prodigy Jenny and her fame-seeking mother have been kidnapped. The Grampian Police have no clues to go on and no suspects. They have to do it the hard way. Then there's drug-dealing Shuggie and his girlfriend, skanky Tanya. Shuggie is being pursued by debt collectors with unusual enforcement techniques, and Tanya gets herself kidnapped but nobody cares. The papers are all full of guff about pretty Jen and pretty Alison, except for one newshound who scents a stitch-up.
Great plot, very 2012 in its themes, with just enough Aberdonian wisecracks to flavour the prose. A crime writer to follow.
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