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Some secrets lie close to home... A family day out turns sour for DI McKay when he stumbles across an unidentified corpse. The day becomes darker still when his brother-in-law goes missing and is eventually, found dead, the result of a seemingly accidental fall. Meanwhile, DCI Helena Grant has a disastrous on-line date with a pompous senior manager of a local hotel chain. Her initial amusement turns to unease at his disturbing behavior. And, as she...
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DI Alec McKay is back. In the depths of a cold Scottish winter, an unidentified body is found in the heart of a solstice bonfire, apparently burned alive. Over a tense Christmas, a retired businessman goes missing, his body eventually found hanging from a tree in the coastal town. Another associate is found brutally murdered in his remote Highland home. DCI Helena Grant wants to spend a romantic Christmas with her new partner, the crime writer Bill...
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A serial killer is targeting washed-up entertainers in the Scottish Highlands in this gritty crime thriller by the author of Candles and Roses.
Former comic Jimmy McGuire is found dead on the streets of Inverness, his body garroted. Years ago, McGuire had been half of a promising double-act until his partner, Jack Dingwall, was convicted of rape. Soon after, a second corpse is found in an abandoned industrial site on the edge of the Moray Firth-also...
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In this gritty crime thriller set in the Scottish Highlands, a detective's hunt for a serial killer leads him confront his own past. Haunted by the loss of his daughter, Detective Inspector Alec McKay obsesses over a missing person case that's going nowhere. But that investigation is interrupted when bodies start appearing on the Scottish Black Isle-each with roses and candles placed around it. As McKay and his team begin to identify a disturbing...
5) Human Assets
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"I am a huge fan . . . this book deserves 10 stars. Fast-paced and action-packed . . . Brilliant!" -Rock Chick Fee, five stars
After her son's tragic death, a former cop discovers his dangerous secret life-and picks up where he left off . . .
Former police officer Emma Raven has a heartbreaking task ahead of her: gathering her late son's possessions from his Cambridge college.
His death was deemed a suicide. But once she enters Paul's room...
6) Winterman
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In this post-WWII crime thriller, a detective searches for a serial killer who's made a hunting ground of the English Fenlands.
Det. Inspector Ivan Winterman has had more than his share of troubles. The Blitz left his young son dead and his wife seriously injured. Having made enemies in high places, his career is going nowhere. Now he's back in his coastal hometown of East Anglia, England-a part of the country gripped by post-war austerity and the...
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A killer is sending a message — but for who?
DI Annie Delamere and her colleague DS Zoe Everett are off duty and enjoying a walk on the Peak District's vast moorlands when they stumble across a mutilated corpse. The victim is unclothed and his tattoos indicate an affinity with the occult.
While Annie is put in charge of the case her long-term partner, MP Sheena Pearson, is confronted by a group of far right extremists. Rather than back down Sheena...
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A vicious murder is committed, but who has blood on their hands?
On a hot summer's afternoon, Michelle Wentworth enjoys a rare few hours of relaxation. Sunning herself by her pool, she sends her lazy teenage son to fetch her a drink. But instead of a refreshment, Michelle is given a nasty shock when shortly after her child's bludgeoned body is discovered on the doorstep.
DI Annie Delamere attends the scene, joined by DS Zoe Everett. There is nothing...
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A massacre in the Scottish Highlands is far more than the family tragedy it first appears to be, in this riveting police procedural.
The slaughter of the Dawson family seems to be a heartbreaking case of murder-suicide-another deeply troubled man who violently snapped and killed his wife and children before ending his own life. But DI Alec McKay doesn't think it's as open-and-shut as it looks. Why was a BMW parked at the Dawsons' holiday home...
10) Bad Terms
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Dark deeds in the Peak District refuse to stay buried…
When a skeleton is unearthed at a building site in the village of Meresham, the police immediately link the case to a notorious missing persons investigation. Jayne Arnold was sixteen when she disappeared in the long, hot summer of 1976, and has not been seen since.
Soon after the bones are found, a tragic accident occurs at an elite boarding school nearby. The young victim fell to her...
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