In this gritty, mystery series debut, a lone wolf detective must use her wits to nab a serial killer terrorizing Edinburgh professionals.If it was me, if I was the murderer, Alice thought, where would I go? What would I do? The job he had set himself...
A Scottish detective investigates a suspicious death with ties to a wind farm in this mystery by the author of Blood in the Water. When the body of a retired sheriff is discovered in his grand house in the New Town of Edinburgh, Detective Sergeant Al...
Midwinter, a freezing night in Leith, near Edinburgh’s red light district. A policewoman’s flashlight stabs the darkness in a snow-covered cemetery. The circle of light stops on a colourless, dead face. So begins the hint for a serial murderer of...
Heather Brodie kisses her lover good night. But back at home her disabled husband lies dead, his throat cut from ear to ear. Many people wanted Gavin Brodie dead, including Gavin Brodie. Devastated by an incurable illness he had pleaded to be allowed...
When the body of a half-clothed woman is discovered in an Edinburgh park, a murder investigation is launched. The victim has not been reported missing and there are few clues to her identity. Soon after, the naked corpse of a prominent clergyman is f...
A secret heard in confession forces a Scottish, small-town, Catholic priest to investigate a murder in this series opener by the author of Troubled Waters. In the house of a Roman Catholic bishop, a man lies in a pool of blood. Out in the bishop’s ...
A young disabled girl is lost on a winter’s night in Leith, unable to help herself or find her way home. Someone is combing the streets, frantically searching for her. Within hours of her disappearance, a body is washed up on Beamer Rock, a tiny is...
From the author of the Alice Rice mysteries, an Edinburgh bibliophile uncovers an unsettling mystery surrounding the death of a late professor. After the death of leading hematologist Professor Anstruther, antiquarian book dealer Anthony Sparrow is t...
An old man, once a judge at the Court of Session, hovers between life and death. One memory haunts him. That of a love affair, years earlier, with a woman called Laura, a woman who from the moment he first saw her had changed his life forever. In her...