Scottish Crime

Exiled from Glasgow. Hunting killers in the Highlands. Detective Inspector Sarah Lynch thought her career was over when she exposed corruption in Glasgow CID. Her reward? Exile to Fort William—a backwater posting in the Scottish Highlands where she's meant to fade into obscurity. But the Highlands have darker secrets than Glasgow ever did. When an environmental consultant's body is pulled from a remote loch, Sarah uncovers an illegal deer poaching operation that stretches across Highland estates. The powerful landowners who run these estates don't take kindly to outsiders asking questions...

Met cop DI Rob Marshall is hot on the trail of the serial killer known as the Chameleon, who has abducted, tortured and killed a series of young women in Northwest London. As they close in, the Chameleon—who switches identity to get close to his victims—shoots Marshall’s partner and escapes.

Luxury villas on hot white sand, views for miles over turquoise water. Flawless hostess Penny gathers guests to an island for her husband’s birthday celebrations. But she soon regrets inviting self-obsessed Eloise. When a child vanishes on the night of the party, their perfect island weekend is ripped apart. Even paradise harbours murky secrets… Has he been taken? Has he drowned? In the panic to find any trace, Penny casts about for someone to blame—even if that person is her own daughter, Rosie. Even clear waters descend to pitch black.

Just when he thought he was out.... Burdened by guilt over the trauma recently inflicted on his friends and colleagues, former-Detective Chief Inspector Jack Logan has spent the past nine months living in self-imposed exile. When a mother and her young daughter are the victims of a double murder staged to look like suicide, Logan is dragged back to help hunt down and catch a brutal, calculating killer. But the world has moved on without him.

One match. One grudge. One killer? Garrick faces his toughest case yet: a cunning serial killer preying on victims through dating apps, and a brutal arsonist leaving destruction—and horror—in their wake. As the investigations collide, nothing is as it seems, and everyone becomes a suspect. Garrick and his team must navigate a twisting web of lies, betrayal, and deadly games where one wrong move could be fatal. Still recovering from a delicate operation, Garrick wonders if he’s truly up for the challenge—or if the paranoia and hallucinations that have haunted him are about to consume...

A body on the beach. A new life in jeopardy. And a darkness even Garrick has never faced. Recovering from past trauma and preparing for impending fatherhood, DCI David Garrick hopes for a fresh start. But the discovery of a body on a quiet beach threatens to shatter his fragile sense of normalcy. What begins as a seemingly routine investigation soon spirals into a grim web of criminal activity—so ruthless that even hardened gangs avoid it. Garrick and his team are pushed to the limits of their skills, facing danger, deception, and brutality like never before. With his unit under strain ...

When the body of a local talent show winner is discovered, on the eve of headlining Kilwinnoch’s annual Civic Week celebrations, it throws the festivities into chaos and threatens to tear the close-knit community apart. For DCI Bone, the death is personal. Days earlier, he’d received a call from the victim, warning that she was about to be killed. He’d dismissed it as a hoax.

The annual West Uist literary festival - The Gathering - always attracts the best in the business. But with the tiny island population suddenly doubling, the local police force is stretched to breaking point. And this year they have to deal with more than just drunken fights and rowdy behavior. Ranald Buchanan, the local poet, is found dead, with his head brutally caved in, and Inspector Torquil McKinnon is brought in to investigate.

After the recent death of her mother and the dissolution of her marriage, 30-something Eden Elliott is seriously in need of a fresh start. At the urging of her best friend, best-selling author Ami Pederson, Eden decides to embark on an open-ended trip to the picturesque village of Glenkillen in the Scottish Highlands, to do some hands-on research for a book of her own. But almost as soon as Eden arrives in the quaint town, she gets caught up in a very real drama....

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When a body turns up in a golf course bunker, covered in blood and sand, DS Vicky Dodds must switch from her usual Dundee patch to search for a murderer in her home town of Carnoustie. But when a second, connected body is found, Vicky must confront the one who got away from someone close to her—the serial killer her ex-cop father lost his mind hunting down back in the 90s.

With the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe away in London, Hamish Macbeth, the constable of the small Scottish town of Lochdubh, pines for company during the long Scottish winter. He gets his wish - and more - when a troupe of flashy, urbane filmmakers clamors into the nearby town of Drim. Before long bedlam erupts around their make-believe mystery - and culminates in the sudden appearance of one very real corpse.

Exiled from Glasgow for exposing corruption, DI Sarah Lynch was sent to Fort William as punishment. The remote Scottish Highlands were meant to end her career. Instead, they became her purpose. From dark lochs to frozen peaks, from burning moorland to ancient forests, DI Sarah Lynch investigates murders that the powerful want buried. Each case transforms her—from bitter outsider to Highland protector, from exile to home. This complete six-book series includes over 180,000 words of atmospheric British crime fiction: 📖 THE DARK LOCH - A body in the water exposes illegal poaching and ...

Was the biggest case of his career the worst mistake he ever made? Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the serial child-killer dubbed "Mister Whisper", earning himself a commendation, a drinking problem, and a broken marriage in the process...When another child disappears a hundred miles north in the Highlands, Jack is sent to lead the investigation and bring the boy home. But as similarities between the two cases grow, could it be that Jack caught the wrong man all those years ago?

DCI David Garrick knows what murder does to a family. He’s been living with it since his sister was killed. Now someone is staging bodies across Kent’s postcard-perfect villages — mutilated, displayed, and marked with a gruesome signature carved from the victim’s own flesh. The press are circling. The public are afraid. And the killings are accelerating. As Garrick leads the investigation, the case begins to echo uncomfortably close to home. Old grief resurfaces. Judgement falters. And the deeper he digs beneath the county’s manicured lawns and quiet lanes, the uglier the truth ...

It was among the earliest cases Dr. Watson undertook in the company of the great Sherlock Holmes, merest months after their initial meeting described in A Study in Scarlet, as in the winter of 1882 the pair travel north to Edinburgh, after a bizarre letter from the eccentric new landlord of a long-abandoned theater, asks for Holmes’ aid in verifying before the world the validity of hauntings long-rumoured to occur there, and which have become supremely active of late amid the playhouse’s ongoing restoration. Disdainful of the idea of the supernatural, the still little-known Sherlock ...

A killer thought dead… is very much alive. DCI David Garrick’s worst fears come true when a gruesome discovery in his own home signals the return of a deranged serial killer he believed was gone forever. But this isn’t the end—it’s the beginning of a terrifying new chapter that threatens everything he holds dear: his career, his love, and his sanity. As the dark secrets surrounding his murdered sister resurface, Garrick is forced onto a case he never wanted—the kidnapping of a prominent businessman’s daughter. Racing against the clock, he and his team must unravel a web of ...

Weird but True Stories from Scottish History: Bizarre, Shocking, and Unbelievable Tales from the Highlands to the Lowlands explores the strangest real events ever recorded in Scotland’s long and complex past. From cannibal clans and prophetic Highland seers to haunted castles, body-snatching murderers, and a legendary whisky heist, this book uncovers the weirdest episodes in Scottish history—stories that sound like fiction but are entirely true or historically accepted. Perfect for fans of unsolved mysteries, folklore with facts, and dark true history, each chapter reveals a strange and...

When the chief suspect in the notorious Peek-a-boo cop killer case blew himself up, almost taking lead investigator DCI Duncan Bone with him, the psychologically damaged detective thought his days on the force were over. But when another PC is abducted and murdered in the same deranged Peek-a-boo fashion, Bone is persuaded to return to lead the new investigation. But as Bone and his team hunt a copycat killer, and with time running out before yet another cop is slain, Bone’s terrifying past returns to tear open old wounds and push him to very edge of the abyss.

Six dark Highland mysteries. One relentless detective. Sarah Lynch has become Fort William's most skilled investigator, solving impossible crimes across the unforgiving Highland landscape. This collection brings together six standalone mysteries that showcase her methodical brilliance, from locked-room puzzles to environmental murders, family betrayals to ritual killings. THE WHISKY GRAVE (Book 7) A master distiller found dead inside a sealed whisky cask. Family secrets fermenting for generations. Sarah must navigate century-old feuds and modern greed to expose a killer hiding behind ...