"A woman enters a Glasgow police station to report her son missing, but no record can be found of the boy. When Detective Harry McCoy, seconded from the cop shop across town, discovers the family is part of the cultish Church of Christ's Suffering, he suspects there is more to Michael's disappearance than meets the eye. Meanwhile reports arrive of a string of poisonings of down-and-outs across the city. The dead are men who few barely notice, let...

"'Under a canopy of mistletoe' is a fascinating action--packed novel, the center of which is Alevtina Orlova, a former investigator and now a public relations specialist at the Ministry of Internal Affairs.Alya is going through a personal drama -- her husband is seriously ill, and she is ready to do anything to save him. Caught up in solving a crime -- the death of a famous industrialist -- she plans to conduct her own investigation, write a sensational...