Fifteen years ago, a man brutally murdered his wife, before taking his own life.

Now, DCI Harry McNeil is heading up a Major Investigation Team and he is called to a small town in the Scottish Highlands. A bride has gone missing from the hotel on her wedding night, and despite a search, there is no sign of her.

McNeil and his team are there to back-up a local MIT along with a team from Glasgow. The bride and groom are from very powerful families from the east and west coasts, and the police need to be seen to be doing something.

While hunting for the bride, somebody turns up dead, murdered in a similar way to the woman from fifteen years ago.

McNeil and the others are pressured into getting a quick result, but how do you catch a killer who is one step ahead and watching your every move? It is going to take all they have to bring him to justice.

Until then, he’s going to keep on killing…

Sticks and Stones is the first novel in a new series featuring DCI Harry McNeil.