Scottish Noir

'This novel stands successfully on its own, its characters fleshed out and in full possession of their idiosyncrasies — all magnificently conveyed by narrator Steve Worsley...He captures perfectly the novel’s dark wit and the region’s pugnacity, bringing a sense of festivity to the police...

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 ...

A true crime podcast sets a trophy wife's present life on a collision course with her secret past in this "blazingly intense" Reese Witherspoon book club pick and New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year (A. J. Finn). The day Anna McDonald's quiet, respectable life exploded started off like...

The refurbishment of the Partick Bunhouse Café is championed as an example of what can be achieved when people from every background are trained to learn skills to improve the local community. There is only one problem. The trainees are getting murdered. That’s to say, one trainee is murdered, and DCI Patterson fears another murder could happen soon if the killer isn’t caught quickly. Yet, Patterson’s investigation is hampered by everyone in the local community pushing their own agenda about who the killer might be. When Patterson himself comes under personal attack, he is in danger ...

A man is pushed out of a fourth-floor Glasgow tenement window. When the dead man is identified as notorious crime boss John Cunningham, there is no shortage of suspects. However, the investigation takes a new turn when a witness to the killing is also murdered. That witness was a seven-year-old girl. Now, DCI Patterson must not only bring a murderer to justice but do so quickly to stop all-out gang warfare breaking out and calm a city demanding justice. Yet, with tragedy striking his own life, catching the murderer, now dubbed The Glasgow Psycho, will prove to be DCI Patterson’s toughest-...

From the author of the “raw, ingenious, and utterly fearless” (Wendy Walker, USA TODAY bestselling author) Temper comes a dynamic psychological thriller about two women who give bad men exactly what they deserve—perfect for fans of Killing Eve and Chelsea Cain. Scarlett Clark is an...

When a nurse is murdered on her way home from nightshift, Jack and his team go on the hunt for her killer. As more victims are uncovered, Jack finds himself tracking a murderer afflicted by a unique psychosis - one that leaves him free to maim and kill without a shred of remorse. Facing a new type of killer in an unfamiliar city, DCI Jack Logan is about to be pushed to his limits, before being forced to realize just how little he truly knows.

One wildfire. Six bodies. Twenty years of secrets. A summer wildfire scorches the remote Highland moors—and reveals something buried for decades. Not one body. Six. All murdered, all hidden in shallow graves across the burning landscape. Detective Inspector Sarah Lynch has been in Fort William for two years, still fighting to prove herself after her Glasgow exile. This case could make her career—or destroy what little reputation she has left. Because the bodies date back twenty years, and the wealthy Highland families who control these estates don't want their secrets excavated. As ...

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 ...

All murder is wrong. Yet some murders are just more immoral than others. When an innocent young woman is murdered in her own bed in the dead of night, it shocks the whole of Glasgow. When it emerges that the murderer climbed three storeys high to enter the victim’s kitchen window, shock is replaced by fear. Will the killer strike again? When will the killer strike again? The responsibility in finding the murderer falls to DCI Mike Patterson. In an abusive relationship and suffering from anxiety, life isn’t easy at the best of times. Now, life is about to become a whole different level ...

Nicole Cutty and Megan McDonald are both high school seniors in the small town of Emerson Bay, North Carolina. When they disappear from a beach party one warm summer night, police launch a massive search. No clues are found, and hope is almost lost until Megan miraculously surfaces after escaping from a bunker deep in the woods. A year later the best-selling account of her ordeal has turned Megan from local hero to national celebrity.

SIX DARK HIGHLAND MYSTERIES. ONE RELENTLESS DETECTIVE. Sarah Lynch has become the Highlands' most formidable investigator, solving crimes others dismiss as accidents or misfortune. This collection brings together six standalone mysteries that showcase her methodical brilliance—from hunting-estate sabotage to industrial murder, from drownings that aren't accidents to falls that were pushed. THE STALKER'S PATH (Book 13) A rifle explodes on a Highland hillside, killing a wealthy American during a guided stalk. Sarah arrests the ghillie with motive and opportunity—then discovers the ...

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?

The Isle of Ghiant has had no permanent inhabitants since the early 1960s, so when a fisherman discovers the freshly dumped body of a woman there, the case baffles the detective in charge. The body is identified as that of a high-ranking ex-cop. The pressure to solve the case intensifies. DCI Dani Bevan knew the victim. DI Juliet Lowther was her first boss as a young detective, starting out her career in Glasgow. The case requires Dani to re-evaluate her past, as a catalogue of shocking secrets emerge that will change the way she views everything that went before. The Dark Isle is the tenth...

The new installment in the “relentlessly engrossing series” (The Wall Street Journal) finds Karen Pirie and her team investigating the murder of a journalist paved under a motorway—but was it his work or his private life that put him there? Scotland, 2025. When torrential winter rain...

From Stuart MacBride, the Sunday Times bestselling author of the smash-hit Logan McRae series. Move Over Miss Marple . . . The great and the not-so-good are gathered at Skirivour Castle Hotel, in the heart of the Highlands, for the wedding of the year – but they weren’t expecting Detective...

It is 1969 and Glasgow is in the grip of the worst winter in decades, yet it is something else that has Glaswegians on edge: a serial killer whose name alone is enough to make them tremble with fear. The Quaker has killed another victim, snatching a young woman from a nightclub and dumping her body like trash in the back of a cold-water tenement. He leaves no clues, and the investigation has led police down one blind alley after another.

An abandoned ship sweeps ashore in the Orkney Isles – and a global conspiracy unfurls. The Killing Tide is the sixteenth book in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod. 'One of the most satisfying characters in modern crime fiction' – Daily Mail After a fierce storm...

How long would you wait to take revenge? 'Now,’ Granny said quietly. ‘We shall hold hands in the dark. Then we will know we aren’t on our own.’ When Sergeant Sam Sharpe of the Virginia P.D. contacts Dani Bevan about the murder of one of his officers, the Glasgow DCI doesn’t see how she can help. But as Sam explains further, Dani finds herself entangled in a case which transports her team back to the murky world of the industrial conflicts of the 1970s. Hold Hands in the Dark is the seventh novel in the DCI Dani Bevan series of police procedurals.

In this heart-pounding thriller and sequel to the Reese Witherspoon book club pick Conviction, Anna and Fin find themselves on another breathtaking chase across Europe—and another race to save their own lives. Deception. Theft. Murder. All you need is confidence. Anna McDonald has made a...