Where No Shadows Fall

Grace den Herder's life has moved on and while she has found a degree of peace with her family her

career move away from the front line is proving more difficult than she thought. Eventually the

strain begins to show and she worries for the future of her career and marriage.

She's asked to review a suicide in Barlinnie Prison and takes it on as a break from the desk and at

first it seems to be no more than a box ticking exercise. She teams up with her old DCI Jimmy

McGovern who seems fully recovered from a health problem and grabs the opportunity to work one

last job before he retires.

The prisoner who committed suicide is Tommy McMartin at one time the heir to one of the most

powerful criminal organisations in west Scotland. His life is taken apart when he is convicted for

the horrific murder of a gay lover although he remembers nothing about it. His life inside is made

impossible without support from his own family who have disowned him.

As Grace reviews the case she uncovers some old skeletons, a trail of lies and she get dragged into a

case that involves an old adversary Brenda McMartin who has been causing havoc across the

Glasgow underworld. Big Brenda plans a robbery in Edinburgh from a rival gang which goes badly

wrong and a complex series of events draws the main characters towards each other where the

departed are taking their secrets the grave as Grace tries to uncover the truth of what happened to

Tommy McMartin. At the same time someone watches her from the shadows and aches for revenge.

This is the fourth book about Grace and brings old and new characters together in a story about old

secrets and lies that seemed to have been buried and forgotten util a chain of events pulls them back

into the light. Grace is faced with the question whether to expose the truth or let the dead lie still.