Devil in the Detail — Ed James

"Rankin for the Xbox generation" The second book in a series of Edinburgh-based police procedurals starring DC Scott Cullen, the first of which which has been compared favourably with Ian Rankin, Mark Billingham and Stuart MacBride. Garleton is a typical East Lothian town - affluent, historic and with a good school. The discovery one January morning of the body of Mandy Gibson, disabled daughter of a pillar of the community, tears the town apart. Detective Constable Scott Cullen, still reeling from the events of a case the previous summer, is pushed out east to help solve the crime. Soon he finds himself stuck between his DI and Bill Lamb, the local Sergeant on whose territory they're trespassing, and becomes embroiled in a hunt for the town's bad boy. What does the small religious group that Mandy's family attend have to do with the crime? As the community closes ranks, Cullen has to resort to looking for the devil in the detail. Scott Cullen book two.