ABOUT Bill Kirton

Bill Kirton
Ex university lecturer, writer of radio and stage plays, crime novels and short stories.Material Evidence, Rough Justice, The Darkness, Shadow Selves and Unsafe Acts are all set in Cairnburgh, near Aberdeen, Scotland and feature DCI Jack Carston.The Figurehead is set in Aberdeen in 1840. More...

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An offshore platform in the turbulent North Sea is a dangerous place…

…there’s the isolation, the machinery and the constant battle with the whims of nature. For Ally Baxter, a safety officer on Falcon Alpha, those whims take a deadly turn. When his workmates decide he’s gay, an evening ashore turns ugly as they indulge in some drunken queer-bashing. Later his body is found along the route the group followed.

For DCI Jack Carston, the case seems simple enough until a second murder is discovered. This time it’s the prostitute Ally always visited—a young mother with a baby son. Complications mount as Carston, in addition to his investigations, has to deal with an inexperienced officer under his command and a disciplinary charge brought against Carston himself by a vindictive superior officer.

The obstacles keep piling up, but more is to come when he finds evidence of a plot to wreck the platform itself.