Alphabet Arthur Ransome on a snowy night at

on a snowy night at the end of winter

Scottish crime fiction at its very best

and snow is gently falling in Siglufjr_ur

So when the body of a US soldier is found under mysterious circumstances on the beach

What could possibly go wrong

Alphabet Arthur Ransome on a snowy night atIn Thatcher's Britain, barely out of his teens, highly intelligent but illiterate and with a childhood of care homes and fostering behind him, Simon Austen is sent down for life for murdering his girlfriend. He did it but he doesn't know why or maybe doesn't want to know why. Or both . . . Then Simon makes an important decision to rehabilitate himself on his own terms. He learns to read and write; then, daringly, from his high security prison, begins