Don Colyear has made the transition from his role as a Community Police Sergeant to a new position in Edinburgh's CID, but the adjustment has not been easy. The workload and paperwork are one thing but being micro-managed by DCI Templeton as well is more than testing.And when Colyear's investigation into a mysterious death spirals into a complicated case centred on a massive consignment of Class A drugs, a double murder and a clash between low-level and professional criminals, his instincts are put to the test. Johnstone spent 10 years in the Scottish police service and brings gritty authentic detail to his writing Stuart Johnstone was selected by Edinburgh City of Literature Trust as an emerging writer and won a short story competition judged by Stephen King Third in the Don Colyear series, following Out in the Cold and Into the Dark, set in the Scottish Highlands and Edinburgh