TY - BOOK AU - MacBride,Stuart TI - The dead of winter SN - 9781787634923 (hbk.) : PY - 2023/// PB - Bantam Press KW - Crime KW - Crime & mystery fiction KW - Thriller / suspense fiction KW - Cairngorms National Park (Scotland) KW - Fiction KW - Detective and mystery stories KW - lcsh N2 - It was supposed to be an easy job. All Detective Constable Edward Reekie had to do was pick up a dying prisoner from HMP Grampian and deliver him somewhere to live out his last few months in peace. From the outside, Glenfarach looks like a quaint, sleepy, snow-dusted village, nestled deep in the heart of Cairngorms National Park, but things aren't what they seem. The place is thick with security cameras and there's a strict nine o'clock curfew, because Glenfarach is the final sanctuary for people who've served their sentences but can't be safely released into the general population. Edward's new boss, DI Montgomery-Porter, insists they head back to Aberdeen before the approaching blizzards shut everything down, but when an ex-cop-turned-gangster is discovered tortured to death in his bungalow, someone needs to take charge ER -