The Blood Tree

Independent Edinburgh - a tourist,s paradise, a citizen,s paradox. It,s 2026. The birth-rate is down in the Council,s perfect city, and gangs of disaffected kids roam the streets. A break-in at the fermer Scotish Parliament archive is rapidy followed by two gruesome murders, the victims mutilated and covered with blood-drenched branches.
Under the watchful eyes of the guardians, renegade investigator Quintillian Dalrymple is called in to establich a pattern and to stop the roots of violence spreading.
But Quint,s investigation is driven in a different direction when Edinburgh,s brightest teenagers are abducted to the much-feared democratic city-state of Glasgow.
What Quint finds there will change his life forever...