Scottish Crime

Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn’t talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age 12. She doesn’t talk about the grim post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn’t talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich’s most notorious extermination camps. All The Broken Places moves between Gretel’s girlhood in Germany to present-day London as a woman haunted by the past.

From # 1 bestselling author, Stewart Giles comes a new detective Harriet Taylor/Jason Smith thriller. The lives of the people in the charming Cornish village of Trotterdown are about to be shattered. When the body of a man is discovered on a beach near Trotterdown, detective Harriet Taylor gets to work. It soon becomes clear that this was no ordinary murder - the man was placed in a yoga position and his pockets were filled with seashells. As more bodies pile up, suspicion falls on the residents of the old Beekeeper's house. Who are these New-Age youngsters and is their 'peace and love' ...

Rachel is no stranger to the darkness in the hearts of men. When the body of a young woman is found, tragically killed in her own home, Rachel is devastated to discover she knew the victim. Gillian helped her when she was at her lowest; now Rachel vows to find her friend’s murderer. When the killer strikes again, frighteningly close to home, Rachel sees a chilling pattern to his victims. As she races to decipher the clues, she unravels a twisted plan years in the making.

Opening her shop Cashmere Crush and making a new home for herself, her son Brody, Gramps, and their black Scottish terrier Wallace in the beautiful Scottish village of Nairn, is a dream come true. So Paislee is happy to give back by donating a luxurious cashmere sweater for an auction to raise money for the Nairn Food Bank. She's less happy to make the acquaintance of a clique of competitive moms at the charity event, who treat a baking contest like it's life or death. It turns out to be the latter for queen bee Kirsten Buchanan.

At one time, Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that she had a story to tell. For the first 50 years of her life, nothing out of the ordinary ever happened to her. She was a spinster watchmaker living contentedly with her sister and their elderly father in the tiny house over their shop in Haarlem. Their uneventful days, as regulated as their own watches, revolved around their abiding love for one another. But with the Nazi invasion and occupation of Holland, everything changed....

Autumn Carlisle loves her job as cabin crew supervisor for Lomond Airlines. At least she did. For months, she has experienced a deepening sense of dread whenever she steps onto an aeroplane. Her dreams are filled with horrific scenes of injury and destruction. Autumn fears she may not be able to continue in the career she adores. It feels as if Death itself is chasing her down… DCI Dani Bevan is asked by an old friend to probe into the suicide of an air stewardess down in London. There is more to the case than it first appears. Bevan becomes embroiled in a multiple murder investigation ...

“Sean Miller - a rogue of the first water; a former Army sniper, he seems unable to stay out of a fight.” Sean Miller’s fighting a guerrilla war in Spain when he’s called back to Britain. His task? To seek out an assassin as dangerous as himself. A sniper whose deadly aim could plunge the world into war. As the shadow of the Nazis falls across Europe, a sinister conspiracy plots a secret war closer to home. Miller’s pursuit leads from the menacing alleys of London’s East End to the lonely mountains of Scotland. A duel to the death where there can be only one victor in the ...

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...

In The Lewis Man, the second book of the trilogy, Fin Macleod has returned to the Isle of Lewis, the storm-tossed, wind-scoured outer Hebridean island where he was born and raised. Having left behind his adult life in Edinburgh - including his wife and his career in the police force - the former Detective Inspector is intent on repairing past relationships and restoring his parents' derelict cottage. His plans are interrupted when an unidentified corpse is recovered from a Lewis peat bog. The only clue to its identity is a DNA match to a local farmer, the now-senile Tormod Macdonald....

After a violent home invasion in the remote wilds of Glen Coe leaves a family of four dead, DCI Jack Logan and his team are brought in to lead the manhunt. But, when one of the victims is revealed to be one half of legendary 1980s Glasgow-based comedy double act, Neeps & Tatties, Logan is forced to leave the Highlands and head back to his old stomping ground.

A phone call from Belfast shatters Isobel McKenzie’s sleep and her peace. Her nephew, Jack, is safe but two of his friends from Queen’s University are not. Michael is dead and Charlene is in a coma. Isobel leaves for Belfast immediately. The PSNI suspect theft as the motive for the crime but, as Isobel and Jack investigate, they uncover other possible motives: an online bully, a drug connection and ultimately a web of organised crime. A cross-border drug task force is set up and, amidst politics and talk of corruption, the case becomes more and more complicated. Help arrives from London...

Legal investigator Maggie is in Scotland, attending her first-ever music festival at the age of forty-four - and it's not raining! But this is work, not pleasure, as she tries to negotiate a divorce settlement for her client, the wife of Scotland's biggest rock star. Meanwhile DCI Frank Stewart has landed another cold case, as startling new evidence sheds light on a historic allegation of sexual assault. All roads lead to the beautiful Highlands, where the majestic but dangerous River Spey is in full spate, a willing but unknowing accomplice to murder. If you love LJ Ross, Joy Ellis and ...

Tormented by the recent loss of a colleague, DCI Jack Logan is on the warpath, determined to bring down all those he holds responsible for the officer's death. His quest for revenge is cut short when a woman's body turns up on the remote island of Canna, and Jack is summoned to investigate. As a storm closes in, Jack finds himself cut-off from the rest of the world, with no car, no phone signal, and only DC Neish for company,

THERE'S A FINE LINE BETWEEN INNOCENCE AND GUILT. AN EVEN FINER LINE BETWEEN JUSTICE AND REVENGE. Laura prefers the company of her books to the real world - let alone that cesspit online. But when her best friend Emily becomes the victim of horrific cyberbullying, she makes it her all-engulfing mission to track down the worst culprits using her data science skills. Petite corporate financier Suki is about to outshine the stupid boys at her firm: she's leading the acquisition of Edinburgh's most exciting start-up. If only she could get its brilliant, but distracted, co-founder Laura to engage...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brilliant! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I love this series! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Three books in one! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Hooked from the first chapter. The past never truly leaves us. We can turn our backs, bury it deep, but eventually, it will find its way to the surface. D.S. John Anderson is tasked with exposing a major organised crime syndicate when he stumbles upon a miner’s lamp, engraved with mysterious initials. This unexpected find pulls him back to the Midlothian pit village he once called home. The case takes a sinister turn with the discovery of a group of trafficked children, ...

'I was so hooked I didn't want this to end!' - Amazon reviewer Demanding lawyer Jolene Cavendish is not exactly popular with her workmates, so when a witch's hat and broomstick are left on her desk, she laughs it off as a stupid prank. But then the campaign of harassment starts to escalate and lives are threatened. Can barrister-turned-private-eye Maggie Bainbridge and her handsome ex-army assistant Jimmy Stewart find out who's behind it all before someone gets really hurt? A QUESTION OF HONOUR Reconstructive surgeon James Parrish has become a media darling after rebuilding the face of a ...

Paislee's custom sweater and yarn business, Cashmere Crush, is the sole support for not only the single mum and her 10-year-old son, Brody, but also her eccentric Gramps and Wallace, their black Scottish terrier. So when her landlord, Shawn Marcus, serves her an eviction notice and then pulls a disappearing act, she'll go to any lengths to find the man and reason with him.

The hunter has become the hunted. Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan caught the twisted child killer known as Mister Whisper. Two days ago, Mister Whisper escaped. Now, Jack must track down the most ruthless enemy he has ever faced before he can strike again. But after 10 years behind bars, it isn't just murder that Mister Whisper has in mind. It's revenge. A Whisper of Sorrows is the sixth book in the DCI Jack Logan crime thriller series, all based in the Highlands of Scotland, and it's perfect for fans of Tartan Noir crime fiction.

When a body is discovered at a popular Highland landmark, it seems like just another day on the job for DCI Jack Logan and his team. Except this body is missing a very vital component, and given its location - The Well of Seven Heads - it seems like someone is trying to send a message. But why? And to whom?

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Edgy and exciting. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brilliant book. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fabulous from the off. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Way more than your typical police procedural... What secrets lie behind a young woman's tragic death? High above Chamonix, on the Mer de Glace, two Scottish climbers discover the body of Freya Ruthe, a young Swedish woman, in a crevasse. In a move promoted by Freya's family connections, D.S. John Anderson and D.I. Harry Freeman are sent from Edinburgh to assist the local police with their inquiry. However, their arrival isn’t welcomed by everyone. In a dark corner of ...