Blood Runs Cold by Neil LancasterMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Three and a half stars.
Affi Smith was a victim of trafficking from Albania. Caught in a sting she has been rescued and fostered. After a rocky start she is thriving and hopes to represent Scotland in cross-country running. Then one day whilst out running she is kidnapped.
DS Max Craigie's wife has been personally involved in Affi's case and asks Max to look into her disappearance, worried that the local police will dismiss it as a problem teenager running away. When Max focuses on Affi's ex boyfriend, who made threats to her after they split, he discovers that the boy sent Affi's details to the local community police officer before she was abducted. A community officer who was shipped to the Highlands from Glasgow after being caught at a brothel. The more Max and his team dig into this, the worse it gets, especially when they discover that Affi isn't the first trafficked girl who has subsequently disappeared. The new names and addresses of these girls are supposed to be a secret so who is leaking this sensitive information? Is it someone at the Home Office?
This was the usual gritty, fast-paced crime novel I've come to expect from Neil Lancaster. Yet again he manages to create a believable yet chilling mystery and uncover corruption without becoming repetitive. One of my new favourite authors he's an auto request for me.
I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
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