A young woman. A bath full of chlorine. A killer who knew exactly what they were doing.
When Brooke Trotter is found dead in her family home in Jedburgh, DCI Rob Marshall arrives to find a crime scene that has been methodically erased. No prints. No DNA. No obvious motive. Just a twenty-year-old student who worked at the local jail museum, a town full of festival strangers and a killer who understood forensics well enough to almost disappear completely.Almost.
As Marshall digs into Brooke's life, he finds connections that reach far beyond the Borders – and a darkness with roots he never anticipated.
Connor Dyer makes YouTube videos about Borders history. He’s charming on camera and methodical off it, as he watches Janie, his stepsister, go about his life. While Marshall works the case from the outside in, Connor moves through the same small towns, the same festivals, the same streets, hiding in plain sight and running out of reasons to wait.
Who is the killer forensics almost couldn't find? What does a convicted serial killer have to do with a murder in a quiet Borders town? And how far will a man go to silence the person he should have protected most?
His Wild Blood is the tenth Rob Marshall novel, set against the noise and close community of Jedburgh's Callant's Festival, where everyone knows everyone.
Genre: Mystery