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...>