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About Witness the Dead

Red Silk's gonnae get you . . . Scottish Police are called to Glasgow's Northern Necropolis. The body of a young woman lies stretched out over a tomb in what looks like a ritualistic murder. Her body bears a three-letter message from her killer. In the 1970s, Danny Neilson was the detective working on the infamous Red Silk case. Still haunted by the memory of the unsolved investigation, he spots a link between the new murders and those carried out by Red Silk - details that no copycat killer could have known about. But Archibald Atto, the man suspected of the killings all those years ago, is behind bars, and Danny has to face up to his fear that they never caught their man. Neilson, along with police photographer Tony Winter, visits Archibald Atto in prison. But Atto will not speak to them unless it is on his terms. As clues begin to surface, they learn that they are dealing with someone whose agenda is so terrifying and history so twisted that it will take the combined efforts of police forces past and present to finally catch a killer.

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