Der Bruch

Seventeen-year-old Tyler lives in a run-down tower block with his alcoholic and drug-addicted mother. Forced by his aggressive and psychopathic stepbrother Barry to rob the houses of rich people in Edinburgh, he tries to protect his little sister Bean. On one job, his stepbrother stabs a homeowner and leaves her dying. The next day, Tyler learns that she is Monica Holt, the wife of Deke Holt, the head of a gang. As the police and the Holts close in on Tyler and his family, he meets Flick, a girl from a wealthy home who is suffering from the neglect of her parents. In a world full of outbreaks of violence and abuse, Tyler retains a keen sense of humanity that almost becomes his undoing. "The Fracture" is a tense psychological thriller written by one of Scotland's finest crime writers.