LOOSE THREADS (PB)

Ex-boxer and journalist Robbie Gould and pathologist Sarah Badar have been brought together by a pair of politics lecturers: one missing, the other dead. And neither Robbie nor Sarah are happy with the answers they’re not getting. As they investigate, they unearth connections between the two academics and a rogues' gallery of oddballs and grotesques including rival gangsters from Edinburgh and Glasgow, a llama-farm owner in Kirkintilloch and an ex-KGB general with a trepanned skull and a thirst for vengeance.