A St. Andrews golf course is the site of a grisly discovery in this Scottish crime thriller. Murder. It’s the only word in a note clutched by the dismembered hand found on the lush green of a golf course in St. Andrews, Scotland. When DCI Andy Gilchrist learns the note is addressed to him, he realizes the thing he feared most has come to pass: A killer is deliberately targeting him. Though Gilchrist has plenty of experience solving murders, this time he’s overwhelmed by a flood of seemingly unconnected crises—not only the note found in the victim’s hand, but his son’s missing girlfriend, his ex-wife’s failing health, and his boss’s decision to pair Gilchrist up with a sleazy detective from his past. Worse, the hand turns out to be just the beginning, and soon he’s faced with relentless parade of body parts . . .