Their Final Act

DI Alec McKay, Book 3

Jimmy McGuire, a washed-up comic, is found dead on the streets of Inverness, his body garroted.

Back in the 1990s, McGuire had been half of a promising double act until his partner, Jack Dingwall, was convicted of rape. Soon, a second corpse is found in an abandoned industrial site on the edge of the Moray Firth. The body has been there for some days and has also been garroted. The victim turns out to be a former musician turned record producer who had also been the subject of rape allegations.

Meanwhile, DI Alec McKay and DCI Helena Grant are still wrestling with the fallout from one of their recent cases following an acquittal. As the body count rises, the police think they have the killer in their sights. But McKay is concerned that the evidence is too neat, so when he realises there will be a final victim, he fears that time is running out....

Also available in the best-selling DI Alec McKay series:

Candles and Roses

Death Parts Us

©2018 Alex Walters (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd

Pretty good though cliche

I liked the story itself but tbh, too much boring conversation to tell us who these characters are rather than showing by actions, letting us glean by what happens. The main characters -esp lead guy, are all a bit over predictable based on so many prior books of this nature- the incessant droning conversations (particularly in the previous of the series) about whethet something is ‘by the book’ or not is beyond eye wateringly tiring. But the story is pretty good and it’s entertaining. I like the characters, just not loving them.