Publisher's Synopsis
Stirling in the sweltering summer of 1967. The Summer of Love has brought Hippies and a new found freedom but Bridie O'Day's only concern is getting through her first week as a probationer at Barton road Police Station. Realising her ambition to join CID is not going to be easy. The Police Force is a hierarchy of mysogynous sergeants and predatory plain clothes officers. Promotion for women is unheard of. On a routine visit to the Raploch, Stirling's most notorious housing scheme, Bridie stumbles upon the body of herbalist Helen Swankie. Helen has been murdered and if she can solve the crime before the maloderous and obnoxious Detective Sergeant Gus Wylie it can only help her chance of getting out of uniform, can't it? With the help of genealogist, Charlie Fleck and her foul mouthed parrot 'The Bosun', Bridie begins her own investigation but when a second body turns up, the motive for the killings seems far from simple. Bridie and Charlie embark on a trip deep into the past to unearth as secret buried in medieval times. The murders themselves are linked to one of the darkest tragedies of the preious decade. Will the pair be able to bring the perpetrator to justice before the murderers twisted logic is the cause of yet another death.
