Direct Verzonden Water of Death

Edinburgh, 2025 – sweat city. Global warming has led to strict water rationing. The ruling Council of City Guardians has been forced to become more user-friendly – so citizens now live for the weekly lottery draw. Then people start dying after drinking poisoned whisky, and subversive, blues-haunted investigator Quintilian Dalrymple is thrown into a nightmare case which threatens the Council’s very existence. For Quint, distinguishing friend from foe soon becomes a question of life or death. And the body count, like the temperature, keeps on rising…