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Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and it took some finding, in an overgrown old cemetery. It was a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to do, but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted to do. Only, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found the grave - the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and his three sons began to worry. Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go to the police but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worried.
It was who was missing that caught the interest of the Serious Organised Crime Team at Gartcosh and DS Max Craigie and DC Janie Calder set off to Caithness. Janie Calder is a fast track entrant to the force and this hasn't gone down well with the team but Max Craigie gets one on with her - which was just as well as they were going to be stuck in a car together for a lot of hours. The grave - when they finally find it - has been disturbed. A quick stamp on the stone reveals a lot of flies - and the bloated body of Tam Hardie.
There's history here - and it's a blood feud that goes back a couple of hundred years. Tam Hardie (he's dropped the 'Junior') has to establish his position as the head of the crime family and he orders the deaths of the Leitch family members who might have had anything to do with his father's death. But blood feuds never stop there and it's not long before innocent people are swept into the conflict. There's an even bigger problem though. It quickly becomes obvious that there's corruption at a high level in Police Scotland and the Hardie family are benefitting from it.

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