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    Heads or Hearts: A dystopian mystery set in Edinburgh, Scotland
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    Heads or Hearts: A dystopian mystery set in Edinburgh, Scotland
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    Heads or Hearts: A dystopian mystery set in Edinburgh, Scotland

    By Paul Johnston

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    Maverick ex-cop Quint Dalrymple returns to investigate a series of gruesome murders in a near-future independent Edinburgh.

    Independent Edinburgh, 2033. The Council of City Guardians has been forced to relax its grip on citizens and the borders are no longer secure. Then a human heart is found on a football pitch. Maverick investigator Quint Dalrymple is called in - but before he makes much progress, a citizen’s headless body floats down a canal.

    Quint uncovers a link to the planned referendum over Edinburgh joining a reconstituted Scotland. But who is behind the killings and mutilations? Are the city’s notorious gangs responsible, or does the solution lie with the rulers of Edinburgh and other former Scottish states? Quint must dig deep to save the Council from collapse, and to retain both his head and heart…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSevern House Publishers
    Release dateAug 1, 2015
    ISBN9781780106564
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    Heads or Hearts: A dystopian mystery set in Edinburgh, Scotland
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    Paul Johnston

    Born and brought up in Edinburgh, Paul Johnston studied in his home city, and at Oxford and St Andrews. As well as the Quint Dalrymple novels, he is the author of the Alex Mavros and Matt Wells crime series. He is a lecturer in creative writing at Liverpool Hope University.

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    • 4/5
      Pleased as I was to find investigator Quintillian Dalrymple in a new case, after a rest of nearly 15 years, the result is a tad disappointing - to this reader. The dystopian nature of a future Edinburgh city state is reprised, at a date further in the future, but somehow it seemed a bit samey - for me the first two or three novels were much better. Familiarity breeds familiarity I guess.