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When a child abduction and sexual assault case overlap, Glaswegian police team Costello and Anderson team up to crack the cases

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DI Costello faces a disturbing child abduction case; a six-week-old has been stolen and replaced with another baby. The swap took cold and meticulous planning, so Costello treads the seedy, Glaswegian backstreets for answers. She´s convinced that more than one young life is at stake.

Promoted into the Cold Case Unit, Colin Anderson reviews the unsolved rape of a young mother, whose attacker is still out there. Each case pulls Anderson and Costello in the same direction and, as their paths keep crossing, they begin to suspect their separate cases are dangerously entwined.

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Caro Ramsay proves once against that she is a titan of Tartan Noir. The Suffering of Strangers is an almost brutal masterclass in suspense building. I raced through it, barely pausing for breath Helen Fields

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Ramsay, Caro

Caro Ramsay is the Glaswegian author of the critically acclaimed DI Anderson and DS Costello series, the first of which (Absolution) was shortlisted for the CWA´s New Blood Dagger for best debut of the year. The ninth book in the series, The Suffering of Strangers was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize 2018.

@CaroRamsayBooks caroramsay.co.uk

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