Taggart attends a wedding between a prisoner doing time and a social worker Jane Ross. She is a daughter of well to do parents, her dad was a Lt Colonel in the army and was based in Northern Ireland once.
Elsewhere two young men hold up a lorry, to their surprise the loot contains explosives.
This piques the interest of the IRA and they send an enforcer to Glasgow.
When Jane Ross is found dead after attending a Dungeons & Dragons role play event. Taggart finds that Christmas in Glasgow is going to be grim as the dead bodies pile up.
There is a lot happening in this three parter and it does sag a bit. At one point I did wonder how will this ever come together. A wealthy eccentric old lady who had her child snatched many years ago. The IRA enforcer who is using violence to obtain information on the explosives and might have a motive to take action against the Colonel. A safecracker who has his eyes on a big job with the stolen explosives.
It all gets very convoluted. Through it all Taggart goes about in a manner of someone dour and dismal as the Glasgow weather. Yet he does show flashes of humour.
At the end, the story does make weird sense as well as the motive for the killings. A cold blooded murderer has played the long game and it is not Dungeons and Dragons.
There is certainly an element of Glasgow Noir in these early years of Taggart exploring a dark underbelly.
Elsewhere two young men hold up a lorry, to their surprise the loot contains explosives.
This piques the interest of the IRA and they send an enforcer to Glasgow.
When Jane Ross is found dead after attending a Dungeons & Dragons role play event. Taggart finds that Christmas in Glasgow is going to be grim as the dead bodies pile up.
There is a lot happening in this three parter and it does sag a bit. At one point I did wonder how will this ever come together. A wealthy eccentric old lady who had her child snatched many years ago. The IRA enforcer who is using violence to obtain information on the explosives and might have a motive to take action against the Colonel. A safecracker who has his eyes on a big job with the stolen explosives.
It all gets very convoluted. Through it all Taggart goes about in a manner of someone dour and dismal as the Glasgow weather. Yet he does show flashes of humour.
At the end, the story does make weird sense as well as the motive for the killings. A cold blooded murderer has played the long game and it is not Dungeons and Dragons.
There is certainly an element of Glasgow Noir in these early years of Taggart exploring a dark underbelly.
