Murder in the Braids by Val Penny
Murder in the Braids by Val Penny
English | 2026 | Mystery & Thriller
Two missing bodies. Thirty years apart. One killer who thought they’d buried the truth forever.
Two weeks before Christmas. Two off-duty detectives out running through the wooded Hermitage of Braid on the outskirts of Edinburgh find a man bleeding to death beside the icy Braid Burn.
They race for help but when they come back, the body has gone.
No corpse. No name. Just a pool of blood freezing into the snow.
Detective Hunter Wilson has seen this before. As a boy of fifteen, he and his brother stumbled on a murdered stranger in those same woods. That body vanished too. That case was never solved.
Now the past has clawed its way back to the surface. Someone has spent a lifetime making sure certain victims are never found.
And they’ll kill again to keep the truth buried.
