Thoroughly enjoyable revisit to the story of Oscar Slater. Well written, though stylistically choppy, the book gives an exciting recounting of the story of one of Scotland’s most outrageous miscarriages of justice.

In parts repetitive, and tending to wander off on tangents occasionally (perhaps to pad the story out to book size), this is nonetheless a gripping and interesting read.

As an aside, she refers on several occasions to the legal writer William Roughead. He attended Slater’s trial and wrote about it at the time, and I can recommend his writing on true crime cases in Scotland.