Scotland Mysteries Psychological

Photographer Isla Wilson is thrilled she's landed her dream job, but the clients who hired her are getting stranger by the day. It sounded so perfect—a month's assignment at the lush Scottish Highlands property of architect Alban McGregor, and his wife, Jessica. But in the woods, there's a playhouse with a chilling history. Two years ago, the McGregors' daughter Elodie was abducted and then died in that playhouse. The townspeople insist her abductor had to be a stranger in their town. Alban refuses to knock the playhouse down, even keeping a picture of it on his wall.

There will be no escape this Christmas... They’re out there again. My heart pounds as I look out of the kitchen window. For weeks now, they’ve been harassing us, vandalising our property and intimidating our children. It’s been relentless. The police don’t take them seriously because they’re teenagers. But they don’t know what it’s like to live like this. Those girls are running rings around us, and it’s got to the point where they're there every time we leave the house, mocking us. Following wherever we go. We’ve had as much as we can take. So in the middle of the night, ...

A private detective, down on his luck. A bus crash in the middle of nowhere. A murderer, hiding in plain sight. When Sydney Cartel investigates a murder, he usually stands on the other side of the police tape. Trying to escape the limelight of his career, he boards a night bus in rural southern Britain. But when the bus loses control and falls into a valley, Sydney and the survivors scramble to find shelter at a local inn by the side of the road. In the dead of night, with a storm preventing anyone from getting in or out, the survivors of the crash prepare for a long stay at the Roadside ...

One bitterly cold February night at the remote MacKinnon Hotel, Remie Yorke begins her last shift at the front desk as the snow begins to fall. She has booked a one-way flight for the next day—and she's never coming back to Scotland. Or so she thinks. As the storm quickly invades the surrounding Highlands, the roads become impassable and the phone lines fall dead. When the icy temperatures plummet further, an injured man stumbles into the hotel lobby from the blizzard. Police Constable Don Gaines has been in a car accident on the mountain road, and Remie welcomes him to safety.

When you can’t hear…death comes silently. Scotland Yard detective Valerie Crowther is assigned to investigate the murder of a student at a university for the Deaf in London, England. The murder investigation coincides with a deadly flu virus outbreak, resulting in the university being quarantined from the outside world. When more Deaf students are murdered, it becomes clear there is a serial killer operating within the sealed-off university. A chilling cat-and-mouse game evolves as the unknown killer targets Valerie and the virus claims more lives. A stunning, claustrophobic, “...

Some family secrets may be better left buried. Diana Chambers thought she escaped her life as the daughter of famous demon hunters Denny and Lucille Hebert, that is until an exorcism turns fatal and her father is charged with murder. Now, forced to return home to Louisiana and the family she left behind, Diana is reunited with her surviving sisters to uncover the truth behind the murder. She unearths long-buried secrets that could destroy her family by unleashing the most frightening demons of all, the Heberts’ personal demons.

What if your memories weren’t your own? When Anna rescues her sister Claire from a secretive program, she discovers that memory itself can be rewritten, identities erased, and families weaponized in the name of progress. As Claire fights to reclaim fragments of her true self, both sisters confront devastating revelations about their parents’ role in creating the technology that destroyed them. Trust becomes fragile, truth becomes dangerous, and genuine recovery will force them to face dark truths.

Reeling from the death of her husband, thirty-something audiobook narrator Lindsay Hale retreats to her Scottish hometown and the comforts of old times. The bungalow where she grew up is just as she left it, next to the scrapyard her family still owns. But something is wrong…something beyond grief. Something she can only glimpse from the corner of her eye.

Drei verschwundene Mädchen und eine Spur, die weit in die Vergangenheit führt... In den Hochmooren Nordenglands wird die Leiche der ein Jahr zuvor verschwundenen 14-jährigen Saskia Morris gefunden. Kurze Zeit später wird ein weiteres junges Mädchen vermisst, die ebenfalls 14-jährige Amelie Goldsby. Die Polizei in Scarborough ist alarmiert. Treibt ein Serientäter sein Unwesen? In den Medien ist schnell vom Hochmoor-Killer die Rede, was den Druck auf Detective Chief Inspector Caleb Hale erhöht. Auch Detective Sergeant Kate Linville von Scotland Yard ist in der Gegend, um ihr ehemaliges Elternhaus zu verkaufen.

When journalist Ava Brent decides to investigate the dark mystery of Overtoun Estate — a "thin place", steeped in myth — she has no idea how dangerous this story will be for her. Overtoun looms over the town, watching, waiting: the locals fearful of the strange building and the secrets it keeps. When Ava starts to ask questions, the warm welcome she first receives turns to a cold shoulder. And before she knows it, Ava is caught in the house’s grasp too.

A vanished journalist. A buried secret. And a team on the edge. When the remains of famed investigative reporter Declan Rafferty are unearthed in the haunted depths of Epping Forest, Scotland Yard’s SIU is called in to solve a mystery nearly two decades cold. But what begins as a recovery turns into something far more disturbing. The clues don’t add up. The burial is too deliberate. The story—too tidy. As Dr. Charlie Morrow digs into Rafferty’s past, her instincts whisper that the case was meant to stay buried. But uncovering the truth comes at a cost. Tensions rise within the team ...

A body buried beneath a ruined chapel. A mouth filled with scripture. And what happens when the price of belonging is too great. When construction workers uncover a mummified corpse beneath the floor of an abandoned church in rural Surrey, the grisly discovery sends ripples through the village—and flags a case for Scotland Yard’s elite Scientific Investigation Unit. The body, wrapped in burlap and plastic, has been entombed for nearly a decade. Scripture stuffed into the woman’s mouth brands her a modern-day Jezebel, but the ritualistic burial raises more questions than answers. DCI ...

Behind every locked door is a truth too terrible to face… When Clara arrives at a remote house on the edge of a Scottish forest, all she wants is to keep her children safe. Far from the city. Far from the noise. Far from the danger. The rules are simple. Stay quiet. Stay inside. Avoid the light. But as winter deepens and the shadows grow longer, the cottage begins to feel less like a refuge and more like a trap. There are voices in the walls. Faces in the fog. And the staff who arrive to help her—an unnervingly calm housekeeper, a mute young woman, and a man who claims to know her—...

The victim was playing dead. Until a killer made it real. Halloween night, 2013. A ghost tour winds through the ancient streets of Chester. One actress collapses in a pool of stage blood—only it isn’t fake. Laurel Hart dies in full costume, in front of an audience that applauds the performance. Twelve years later, the case is still cold. No motive. No suspects. No justice. Enter Dr. Charlie Morrow, a forensic psychiatrist with a controversial past and a psychic gift she doesn’t advertise. Recruited into a newly formed cold case unit, Charlie is tasked with uncovering the truth behind ...

It's been years since Zoe last saw them – since they graduated, drifted apart, and lost touch. Years since Zoe ended things with Dan because the memories were too painful to bear. Years since that night – the night an unexpected death shattered their close-knit group of friends. Now, Zoe is invited to Scotland for a wedding – a grand affair at a manor house on a remote island. Apprehensive about the reunion, she hopes the long drive with Lily will help ease her nerves. But things are far from simple.

Eine Maschine der British Airways stürzt unter verdächtigen Umständen in die unerreichbaren Tiefen der Keltischen See und reißt 228 Menschen in den Tod, ein Mädchen sieht jede Nacht zur Stunde des Wolfes seinen verschollenen Vater, eine betrogene Mörderin beweist Haltung, eine Polizistin und ihr Partner haben sowohl einander als auch den üblichen Verdächtigen eine Menge vorzuwerfen, und eine lang verstummte Autorin meldet sich wieder zu Wort.

Ottobre 2017: in una spettrale brughiera nell'Inghilterra del Nord viene ritrovato il corpo di Saskia Morris, una quattordicenne scomparsa l'anno prima a Scarborough, nello Yorkshire. Contemporaneamente un'altra ragazza della stessa età, Amelie Goldsby, è strappata alla morte da uno sconosciuto, che in una notte di tempesta sente le sue urla strazianti provenire dal mare e riesce a trarla in salvo.

When a man in eighteenth-century Highland dress is found dead on the site of the Battle of Culloden, where Bonnie Prince Charlie led his forces to a rout seared into Scottish memory, Rebecca Connolly takes up the case for the Chronicle. A controversial film about the rebellion and battle is being shot nearby, and it has drawn the ire of the right-wing nationalist movement Spirit of the Gael. Is there some link between the murder—the weapon used to impale the man leaves no doubt it was murder—and Spirit of the Gael or the shadowy militant group New Dawn?

She’s run as far as she can. But danger is closer than ever… –––––––––––––––––––––––––– Callie is on a winter writing retreat in the wilds of Scotland – a chance to let her creativity flow and heal from the horrifying event that ripped...

State prosecutor Chastity Riley runs off to Glasgow. For one, there is that letter, written by a lawyer, that lures her to the birthplace of her great-great-grandfather. And secondly, her life in Hamburg has arrived at a sad impasse. In the rough Scottish city, she meets Tom, who knows the key that unlocks the Rileys’ family secret. She never dared confront the painful truths about herself, but some whisky and a few ghosts help her to do just that.