Blog Tour: Overkill – Colin Garrow

Edinburgh, Christmas Eve, 1936. A gruesome double murder. A white-faced killer. A mysterious stranger…

Still haunted by his recent past, Professor Finlay MacBeth is called in to assist the police following an horrific double murder. Traces of greasepaint and white cotton lead MacBeth and Inspector
Callaghan to the Christmas Circus, but while they search for clues, someone else is watching them.

Meanwhile, bent cop Kilmartin still has MacBeth in his sights…

In this thriller series set in Edinburgh, Overkill is book #2 in the Finlay MacBeth series.

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Colin Garrow grew up in a former mining town in Northumberland. He has worked in a plethora of professions including taxi driver, antiques dealer, drama facilitator, theatre director and fish processor, and has occasionally masqueraded as a pirate.

He has published more than thirty books, and his short stories have appeared in several literary mags, most recently in Witcraft, and Flash Fiction North. Colin lives in a humble cottage in Northeast
Scotland where he writes novels, stories, poems and the occasional song.
He plays several musical instruments and makes rather nice vegan cakes.

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My thoughts: Professor MacBeth is settling in for Christmas Eve, when Inspector Callaghan calls, a couple called McDuff have been murdered (which made me grin, any other survivors of reading The Scottish Play at school will know why).

They’ve been savagely butchered and some of their organs are missing, and the police are at a loss. As MacBeth and the inspector hunt for the killer, they find themselves directed towards the circus, in town for the festive season.

There a performer mentions being scared by a man with a strangely pale face – and striking blue eyes. Could he be their killer? The traces of greasepaint at the scene suggest a link.

More bodies turn up as the police work, also brutally slaughtered. But there’s another killer lingering in the wings with his own plans and a personal vendetta against the professor.

Absolutely gripping and sinister, I really enjoyed (if that’s the right word for a book about a murder) this book. I like MacBeth, Rhona and Johnnie, his little found family. Looking forward to seeing where this series goes next, the ending is a bit of a cliffhanger.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.