The Wolf Hunters — Amanda Mitchison

*** SHORTLISTED FOR THE BLOODY SCOTLAND DEBUT PRIZE 2022 *** This debut crime novel is set in a brutal, chaotic Scotland of the near future, where it's business at any cost for the people who live there. Archie Henderson, a passionate hunter, has rewilded his vast Highland estate filling the mountains and woods with wolves and bears. Here he runs wolf hunts with a terrible difference.

But when a young man is killed by a bear on the reserve, DI Rhona Ballantyne is assigned the case. As her enquiries progress, she begins to unravel the dark secret behind the death, and uncovers a terrifying truth that will put her own life in jeopardy. Will the hunter become the hunted?

A new writer to this genre, Amanda Mitchison has hit the ground running with a new spin to Tartan Noir.