No Such Thing As Destiny

Publisher Marketing: The Doune family were old money, so old they had a motto and a coat of arms. But that didn't stop Lachlan Doune becoming a child killer twenty years ago, while still a child himself. Stevie McCabe knows nothing of why Lachlan, released from psychiatric care after a long incarceration, calls for his services, and has no chance to find out before the client is found hanging from a rowan tree outside the family mansion, his alcoholic sister too wasted to notice. When Lachlan's will is read, the shocking revelation is that his millions have been left to the mother of the child he killed decades before...but that bequest is worth nothing, because the fortune has already been stolen. McCabe, facing his own issues of family and relationships, begins to wade through the bleak, tortured history of a clan weighted down by decades of murder, wealth, suicide, infidelity and violence. Truth is illusory and nothing stays the same for long in their dark world of lies and fear. The veteran detective plunges into a world where money and privilege is overlaid on Glasgow's tapestry of drugs and crime, a convergence that breeds creatures breathing squalid life and miserable death over everything they touch. Can McCabe discover a seam of truth running through the mother lode of decay? Contributor Bio:  Callaghan, John John Callaghan is Professor of Politics at the University of Wolverhampton. Steven Fielding is Professor of Contemporary Political History in the School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History and Associate Director of the European Studies Research Institute at the University of Salford. Steve Ludlam is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield.