Dead Catch, T.F. Muir
Dead Catch, T.F. Muir
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Dead Catch

Author: T.F. Muir

Narrator: David Monteath

Unabridged: 9 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/07/2019


Synopsis

When Joe Christie's fishing boat is swept onto Tentsmuir beach during a fierce storm, a man's mutilated body is found in the hold. DCI Andy Gilchrist of St Andrews CID is called in to investigate. But his murder investigation deepens when he learns that Joe Christie and his boat have been missing for three years.

The police pathologist, Dr Rebecca Cooper, retrieves a five pound note from the dead man's throat. Is this the killer's calling card? And whatever happened to Joe Christie? Cooper offers Gilchrist a clue to the dead man's identity - a scar from a recent operation to repair a bone shattered by a bullet.

The dead man is found to have been on the payroll of big Jock Shepherd, Scotland's premier crime patriarch, and when three more of Shepherd's men turn up brutally murdered, Gilchrist fears a tectonic shift in the criminal underworld.

Gilchrist and his partner, DS Jessie Janes, set off along a murderous trail where they uncover a plot involving drug shipments and police corruption, and come face to face with a man for whom human life means nothing.

PRAISE FOR T.F. MUIR:

'Rebus did it for Edinburgh. Laidlaw did it for Glasgow. Gilchrist might just be the bloke to put St Andrews on the crime fiction map.' Daily Record

'A truly gripping read, with all the makings of a classic series.' Mick Herron

'Gripping and grisly, with plenty of twists and turns that race along with black humour.' Craig Robertson

'DCI Gilchrist gets under your skin. Though, determined, and a bit vulnerable, this character will stay with you long after the last page.' Anna Smith

About T.F. Muir

Born in Glasgow and now a dual UK/US citizen, T.F. Muir is the author of the DCI Andy Gilchrist series - the first of which, Eye For An Eye, won the Pitlochry Award for the best crime novel by an unpublished writer, and the second, Hand For A Hand, continues to garner great reviews. He is now working on his next Gilchrist novel, another story suffused with dark alleyways, cobbled streets and all things gruesome.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Elaine on January 29, 2020

When a boat washes up on the shores of St Andrews rescuers are horrified to find a mutilated body in the hold. The mystery deepens when the boat is discovered to belong to Joe Christie, a fisherman who disappeared three years ago and the dead man to be an alleged associate of Scotland’s leading gang......more

Goodreads review by Christine on August 18, 2021

Dead Catch (DCI Andy Gilchrist Book 8)by T F Muir Dead Catch by T F Muir is book 8 in the Andy Gilchrist series and I have book 9 Dead Still already on my Kindle ready to read next. This is another of the Scottish crime thrillers that you just look forward to reading. Thereis something no nonsense and......more

Goodreads review by Charlotte on July 18, 2020

DCI Andy Gilchrist with DS Jessie Janes are called to the execution and murder of a body found in the hold of a boat. When he is taken off the case and Jessie’s brother wants to do a deal on information Andy knows this is not a straight forward murder. Drugs and police corruption will come to the fr......more

Goodreads review by Kirsten on March 09, 2023

Ein Fischerboot wird am Strand angespült. An Bord ist ein Toter, der gefoltert wurde und an dem ein Hinweis hinterlassen wurde, der auf einen der großen Gangsterbosse Schottlands deutet. Gerade als Andy Gilchrist und sein Team mit den Ermittlungen anfangen, wird ihnen der Fall aus der Hand genommen.......more

Goodreads review by A on September 03, 2020

At first glance little about this book deviates from the familiar Tartan noir template. Although St Andrews makes a welcome, if no less gritty, change of setting from Glasgow or Edinburgh. Gilchrist makes for a suitably craggy central character and the tangled private lives of him and his team make......more