Scottish Police

During the Edinburgh Festival, DCI Rob Marshall answers a call that lures him to Duddingston Loch, where he witnesses a woman drowning. At the exact same time and hundreds of miles south in London, Met DI Sam Winter takes the exact same call–and can't save a man from burning to death near the Notting Hill carnival.

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.

REVENGE IS ONLY HALF THE STORY… An unreported disappearance. A crime hidden in plain sight. A temptation that threatens to corrupt even the incorruptible. When a corpse is finally uncovered, the dark secrets behind the crime are laid bare. But the dead cannot speak, cannot accuse, and cannot demand justice. It falls to DCI David Garrick and his team to piece together the clues and unravel a most peculiar and chilling case. Yet even as the investigation intensifies, Garrick is under pressure closer to home. Budget cuts, a wedding, and mounting personal crises force him to question ...

Helen Carter has just landed her first case as a detective: a murder in an abandoned cinema. A mysterious clock-like symbol is drawn on the wall...in blood. Stranger still is what the killer left behind: the business card of an ex-cop. Since being promoted from WPC, Helen is having trouble making her mark in the male-dominated Edinburgh CID, working under Inspector Jack Craven. He’s not happy about having a woman on his team. Witnesses won’t talk to her; her colleagues don’t take her seriously.

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 ...

When fire crews are called to a blaze at the home of a Kilwinnoch GP they make a grisly discovery: the charred remains of the doctor and his entire family. But is this a tragic accident or an horrific, calculated murder? DCI Duncan Bone's worst fears are confirmed when a cryptic message is found at the scene hinting at a grudge against the medical profession.

When detectives John Stone and Carmen Dehan who run the Cold Cases Department at the 43rd Precinct in the Bronx choose their honeymoon together, there are three things they are very clear on: there must be good steak and whisky, it must be remote, and for two blissful weeks they must forget about work, about cold cases and about murder.

Holly Fenwick thought she had left her nightmare behind. Twelve years ago, she narrowly escaped the clutches of a brutal serial killer. Now, while she films a documentary in Eyemouth in the Scottish Borders, to recover from her ordeal and rebuild her life, she spots a figure eerily similar to her former captor. She rushes in, only to find no trace of the man but a chaotic crime scene–and a missing woman.

NEW FOR 2023 – STAND-ALONE, #21 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "A COMPELLING BRITISH CRIME MYSTERY." SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL ... A reality documentary crew is on the hunt for a victim. An unsolved murder from the 1970s that could leave the authorities red-faced. Celebrity criminologist Professor Simeon Freud plans to bask in the glory. Posing as a researcher, DS Jones joins the production team, but Skelgill must work in the shadows. His instincts rebel – not least that his protégé is prey to a narcissist on the one hand and a killer on ...

DCI David Garrick is haunted by the past—and it’s about to cost more lives. Still scarred by his sister’s brutal murder and tormented by visions he can’t explain, Garrick is barely holding his team together when mutilated bodies begin appearing in Kent’s picture-perfect villages. Each corpse carries the same grotesque signature: a trophy carved from the victim’s flesh. As Garrick digs deeper, he uncovers a hidden world of human trafficking and organised crime festering beneath the county’s idyllic surface. But with the death toll rising and no clear link between the victims, ...

Some crimes refuse to stay buried… Taking leave from Kent Police, DCI David Garrick travels to the USA determined to finally close the chapter on his sister’s brutal murder—a case linked to a grotesque club of serial killers. Accompanied by journalist Molly Meyers, Garrick quickly learns that hunting killers across the Atlantic is far more dangerous than he imagined. And the last surviving killer has no intention of letting him find closure—they’ve only just begun. As the line between justice and vengeance blurs, Garrick is forced to confront his darkest instincts. Every decision ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hogmanay. New Year's Eve. A dead teenager, another missing. One hell of a case. Meet DS Vicky Dodds. Settling down for a nice Hogmanay with her daughter and her best friend, a phone call pulls DS Vicky Dodds into work and to a deadly new case. A teenage girl, her body cooling in a cold, dark supermarket car park. Found next to her friend’s car, but the driver’s missing too — has the killer taken her? Or is she the killer?

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.

Ten years ago, Marshall profiled a serial killer the press had dubbed the Shadow Man, who killed six young athletes at remote sites in cold blood, and he worked with Northumbria Police to catch the perpetrator. But the Shadow Man kept the burial locations of the final three bodies to himself. Tired of the passivity, Marshall quit profiling and joined the police. Now a detective inspector in Police Scotland’s Borders Major Investigation Team, Marshall is summoned to HMP Frankland in County Durham, a.k.a. the Monster Mansion.

When bodies start appearing, lifeless and macabrely displayed, Detective Superintendent Ellie McVey is in a race to find the killer that the press call 'The Gravemaker'. The killer displays the victims after suffocating each of them in increasingly horrific ways. With the city growing fearful and with no fresh leads to go on, Ellie joins forces with he Aunt-in-law Peggy Mitchell and her private investigators at the Mitchell Agency to find the elusive killer. As the Killer's pattern becomes chillingly personal Ellie must navigate a series of lies, traumas and long buried secrets. The closer ...

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...

ONE VICTIM. WRONG BODY. DCI David Garrick’s latest case begins with a corpse that shouldn’t exist—and a detail so bizarre it sparks a national media storm. At the centre of the chaos is a mysterious new street artist, a “Banksy”-like figure whose work is suddenly worth a fortune—and whispered to carry a deadly curse. When collectors start dying and an ambitious art dealer realises he may be next, Garrick and his team are dragged into a deadly game of greed, deception, and murder. But the case is more than just twisted motives and priceless art. With the press watching his every ...

A frozen corpse. A property deal worth killing for. And a killer who plays by no rules. DCI David Garrick thought he’d seen it all—until the bodies started piling up. Deep inside a commercial freezer lies a corpse with a familiar face. What begins as a case of greed and betrayal soon spirals into something far more sinister. Garrick struggles to juggle sleepless nights with a newborn, while his once-loyal team fractures under the weight of personal ambition. Meanwhile, a ruthless killer orchestrates chaos from the shadows. Each new victim drags Garrick closer to a terrifying truth: ...