The Meating Room
English
By (author): T.F. Muir
When the body of Thomas Magners business partner is found dead in his car on the outskirts of Anstruther, all evidence points to suicide. And Magner himself, a wealthy property developer, is currently under investigation for a series of alleged rapes from thirty years ago.
In total fifteen women are prepared to go to court to testify against Magner but one by one they inexplicably withdraw their complaints until only five remain. With the CPS now reconsidering its case, one of Magners accusers is killed in a hit-and-run and the abandoned car is found to be registered to one T Magner.
DCI Andy Gilchrist is assigned to the hit-and-run case and soon discovers that Magners murky past is very much seeping into the present. How did he acquire his wealth? How his first wife die? And why did his business partner commit suicide?
And was Magner a serial rapist in his youth? Or was he something far worse?
Praise for T.F. Muir:
Rebus did it for Edinburgh. Laidlaw did it for Glasgow. Gilchrist might just be the bloke to put St Andrews on the crime fiction map. Daily Record
A bright new recruit to the swelling army of Scots crime writers. Quintin Jardine
Gripping and grisly, with plenty of twists and turns that race along with black humour. Craig Robertson
Gilchrist is intriguing, bleak and vulnerable if I were living in St Andrews Id sleep with the lights on. Anna Smith