Max Quillan is seeking a change from lecturing and when the Honours of Scotland, its Crown Jewels, are loaned to the V&A Design Museum in Dundee he jumps at the chance to be involved. The V&A is then pressed to host a follow-up exhibition featuring avatars generated by AI. The creator of the AI software, a young Polish man, died apparently in an accident. His ground breaking software now belongs to brothers, Ewan and Noel Kydd, one time pop stars with an unsavoury reputation in the city as dealers in drugs and porn.Arriving in Dundee, Max rents a flat in the former Dundee Royal Infirmary building which overlooks the city centre from the north. To his surprise, the neighbouring flat is occupied by vivacious dentist Lucy Donaldson, on whom he had a crush in his student days but has not seen since. Her brother Logan is now a senior policeman in the city. When a doubt arises about the provenance of the groundbreaking AI tech, Max enlists the help of Lucy and her brother. Together they uncover the criminal activities of the Kydd brothers who have already killed to protect their interests, and will not hesitate to do so again.
