For Their Sins

The DI Alec McKay, Book 5

De: Alex Walters

Narrado por: David McCallion

A series of brutal murders dredges up dark secrets from the past, and DI Alec McKay finds himself caught in the crossfire in this pulse-pounding Scottish Highlands thriller.

As the winter chill grips the Highlands, a body is discovered burned alive in a solstice bonfire, kicking off a harrowing Christmas season. When a retired businessman is found hanging from a tree and another associate is savagely murdered in his isolated home, the team is stretched to the limit. With DCI Helena Grant away for a romantic holiday with crime writer Bill Emsworth, McKay must navigate a series of baffling killings under mounting pressure—amidst staff shortages and the relentless Scottish winter.

As McKay races to connect the dots, he uncovers that the victims are all tied to a decades-old investigation, sensationalised in a true-crime book penned by Emsworth. With another businessman missing, McKay fears the killer’s next target may be disturbingly close to home—Helena and Emsworth could be in the crosshairs.

To save them, McKay must unravel a mystery rooted in Helena Grant’s own past, before the killer closes in for the final strike…

For fans of Ian Rankin, this gripping, atmospheric thriller combines complex characters, chilling crimes, and the unforgiving Scottish landscape into an unmissable tale of suspense.

©2021 Alex Walters (P)2025 W F Howes Ltd

Story was great until

The characters are pretty good. The narrator is great with the men’s voices but not so much the women as theres not much variety in his female voices. The story is a good yarn plot wise, though you may see ‘it’ coming a mile away. To whit, I’ll try to impart this last bit eithout spoilers. This book could have been better, if some stupid choices by key characters were not made towards the end. That character is doing WHAT?? With the information they’ve got to hand, are you kidding? That is so not in character! To me thats the only flaw in this series overall; the author causes the characters to often make ridiculous choices to make the plot go a certain way. I mean, why go to such trouble to do a beautiful job of creating depth in a character, only to have them make choices that are completely against the person we’ve come to know so far. In each book something like that has disappointed-in this one, just at the end. But will I pay for and read the rest of the series ? Absolutely. 😁