LET ME DIE IN MY FOOTSTEPS. DS Hutton, #7

A winter wonderland becomes a snowbound, claustrophobic hellscape Detective Sergeant Hutton has taken a month's leave, after inadvertently sleeping with the chief inspector. He is a few days into his stay in a small Highland village when the local police come calling for aid. A young woman has gone missing. Hutton, as uncomfortably addicted to police work as he is to sex and vodka, agrees to help.
The hunt is on for Alice Schäfer. Part-time Post Office worker, bit-part player in the low-budget vampire feature shooting nearby, and promiscuous lover with a reputation around town. Add in the curious case of the Lodge of St Augustine, and Hutton has to cast a very wide net. Someone, however, does not want Hutton involved. Low-level threats quickly escalate, and the terrorising of Hutton has begun.
And as winter weather closes in, and the villagers are trapped in a suffocating snowstorm, it's not just Hutton who will be haunted. Blood flows, screams disappear in the night, and at last a killer will show her hand."A master of comic crime." SCOTTISH FIELD