Douglas Brodie is an ex-policeman, an ex-major in the Highlanders during World War II and now a journalist for the Glasgow Gazette. It is 1946 and Glasgow is sweltering in a late summer heat wave and in a wave of corruption as the city needs rebuilding, and then the murders begin - wow ... this "Gunfight at OK Coral" style ending is quite something. Brodie is not the new Rebus as the publisher suggests, Ferris not the new Rankin. He is his own man and his hero is most definitely not an anti-hero. This is a great, gripping, exciting read. Highly recommended.
Glasgow's melting. The temperature is rising and so is the murder rate. Douglas Brodie, ex-policeman, ex-soldier and now newest reporter on the Glasgow Gazette, has no shortage of material for his crime column.
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Glasgow's melting. The temperature is rising and so is the murder rate.
Bitter Water features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Historical Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
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Bitter Water was written by Gordon Ferris and published by Corvus an imprint of Atlantic Books
Bitter Water has 360 pages
Yes it is part of A Douglas Brodie Investigation series
