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The year is 1905. London is a playground for the rich and a death trap for the poor. When Sofia Logan’s husband dies unexpectedly, leaving her penniless with two young children, she knows she will do anything to keep them from the workhouse. But can she bring herself to murder? Even if she has done it before....

Drugged and kidnapped from his Edinburgh home, the realisation soon dawns that he’s been locked inside a shipping container - but what Bart doesn’t know is that he’s now heading for France, where his unspeakable fate is already sealed.... DCI Ava Turner and DI Luc Callanach are working on separate cases that soon collide as it becomes clear that the men and women being shipped to France are being traded for women trafficked into Scotland. With so many lives at stake, it seems an impossible task - but there’s no option of failure when Bart and so many others will soon be dead...

Edinburgh is gripped by the greatest terror it has ever known. A lone bomber is targeting victims across the city, and no one is safe. DCI Ava Turner and DI Luc Callanach face death every day - and not just the deaths of the people being taken hostage by the killer. When it becomes clear that with every tip-off they are walking into a trap designed to kill them, too, Ava and Luc know that finding the truth could mean paying the ultimate price.

Midnight Jones is an analyst trained to understand the human mind. But everything changes when, in the course of her work, she discovers Profile K’s file – because K stands for killer, and she knows that someone more dangerous than she could have ever imagined walks among them. Midnight knows what Profile K is capable of before he even commits his first crime. But as the news rolls with the brutal murder of a local woman, no one believes what she tells them: that he is capable of so much worse.

In the middle of a rock festival, a charity worker is sliced across the stomach. He dies minutes later. In a crowd of thousands, no one saw his attacker. The following week, the body of a primary school teacher is found in a dumpster in an Edinburgh alley, strangled with her own woollen scarf. D.I. Ava Turner and D.I. Luc Callanach have no leads and no motive – until around the city, graffitied on buildings, words appear describing each victim.

There's no easy way to die.... Unknown to DI Luc Callanach and the newly promoted DCI Ava Turner, a serial killer has Edinburgh firmly in his grip. The killer is taking his victims in the coldest, most calculating way possible - engineering slow and painful deaths by poison, with his victims entirely unaware of the drugs flooding their bloodstream until it's too late.

Elspeth, Meggy and Xavier are locked in a flat. They don’t know where they are, and they don’t know why they’re there. They only know that the shadow man has taken them, and he won’t let them go. Desperate to escape, the three of them must find a way out of their living hell, even if it means uncovering a very dark truth. Because the shadow man isn’t a nightmare. He’s all too real.

Stephen Berry is about to jump off a bridge until a suicide prevention counsellor stops him. A week later, Stephen is dead. Found at the bottom of a cliff, DI Luc Callanach and DCI Ava Turner are drafted in to investigate whether he jumped or whether he was pushed.... As they dig deeper, more would-be suicides roll in: a woman found dead in a bath; a man violently electrocuted. But these are carefully curated deaths – nothing like the impulsive suicide attempts they’ve been made out to be.

When silence falls, who will hear their cries? The body of a young girl is found dumped on the roadside on the outskirts of Edinburgh. When pathologists examine the remains, they make a gruesome discovery: the outline of a doll carved into the victim’s skin. DCI Ava Turner and DI Luc Callanach are struggling to find leads in the case until a doll made of skin is found nestled beside an abandoned baby. After another young woman is found butchered, Luc and Ava realise the babydoll killer is playing a horrifying game. And it’s only a matter of time before he strikes again.

On a remote Highland mountain, the body of Elaine Buxton is burning. All that will be left to identify the respected lawyer are her teeth and a fragment of clothing. In the concealed back room of a house in Edinburgh, the real Elaine Buxton screams into the darkness…. Detective Inspector Luc Callanach has barely set foot in his new office when Elaine’s missing persons case is escalated to a murder investigation. Having left behind a promising career at Interpol, he’s eager to prove himself to his new team.

On a locked ward in the world’s highest-security prison hospital for the criminally insane, a nurse has been murdered and her newborn baby kidnapped. A ransom must be paid, and the clock is ticking. Forensic profiler Dr Connie Woolwine is renowned for her ability to get inside the mind of a murderer. Now she must go deep undercover among the most deranged and dangerous men on earth, and use her unique skills to find the baby–before it’s too late.

Maria is on trial for attempted murder. She has confessed to the crime and wanted her husband dead. Lottie is on the jury, trying to decide her fate. She embarks on an illicit affair with a stranger, and her husband can never find out. You will think you know who is guilty and who is innocent. You will be wrong.

Midnight Jones is an analyst trained to understand the human mind. But everything changes when, in the course of her work, she discovers Profile K’s file – because K stands for killer, and she knows that someone more dangerous than she could have ever imagined walks among them. Midnight knows what Profile K is capable of before he even commits his first crime. But as the news rolls with the brutal murder of a local woman, no one believes what she tells them. Profile K will kill again – and Midnight realises that the moment she found his file was the moment she became his next target.

In search of a new life, 16-year-old Adriana Clark’s family moves to the ancient ocean-battered Isle of Mull, far off the coast of Scotland. Then she goes missing. Faced with hostile locals and indifferent police, her desperate parents turn to private investigator Sadie Levesque. Sadie is the best at what she does. But when she finds Adriana’s body in a cliffside cave, a seaweed crown carefully arranged on her head, she knows she’s dealing with something she’s never encountered before.

In der Nähe von Edinburgh werden in einer abgebrannten Waldhütte die Überreste einer Frauenleiche gefunden. Nur wenige Gewebsspuren führen zu dem Schluss, dass es sich bei der Toten um die vor Tagen verschwundene Anwältin Elaine Buxton handelt. Detective Luc Callanach, der gerade erst seinen Dienst bei der Police Scotland angetreten hat, leitet die Ermittlungen. Doch er ahnt nicht, dass die echte Elaine Buxton noch lebt und in einem Keller gefangen gehalten wird.

Zwei Mordfälle in ein und derselben Nacht erschüttern Edinburgh: Zuerst wird inmitten eines Rockfestivals ein junger Besucher erstochen, und dem Täter gelingt es, in der Menge unterzutauchen. Dann wird nur wenige Stunden später die Leiche einer Krankenschwester entdeckt. Es gibt keine verwertbaren forensischen Spuren, doch eine Gemeinsamkeit: Beide Opfer werden von ihren Mitmenschen als "gute Seelen" beschrieben - und beide mussten unter besonders grausamen Umständen sterben. Detective Callanach steht vor dem Beginn einer Mordserie, die ihm das Blut in den Adern gefrieren lässt.

"Nach den beiden Morden haben Sie sicher Angst, die waren ja ganz in Ihrer Nähe." In einem modernen Biotech-Unternehmen in London entdeckt die Data-Spezialistin Midnight Jones ein außergewöhnliches psychometrisches Profil: das eines Killers. Kurz darauf geschehen in ihrer Nachbarschaft brutale Morde an zwei Frauen, und alles deutet darauf hin, dass es sich um denselben Psychopathen handelt. Doch niemand glaubt Midnight, dass er noch mehr vorhat. Ihr wird klar: "Profil K" wird weiter töten – und sie wird sein nächstes Opfer sein.

Bevor Stephen Berry von der Brücke in den Tod springen kann, rettet ihn eine Sozialarbeiterin. Eine Woche später ist Stephen dennoch tot. DI Luc Callanach und DCI Ava Turner müssen herausfinden, ob er gesprungen ist oder gestoßen wurde. Bald tauchen weitere Selbstmordopfer auf. Doch handelt es sich wirklich um die impulsiven Suizide, nach denen es aussehen soll? Oder um sorgfältig inszenierte Morde? Callanach und Turner ahnen nicht, wie nahe sie dem psychopatischen Killer sind, der mit jedem Mord an Selbstbewusstsein gewinnt.

Am Stadtrand von Edinburgh wird die Leiche von Zoey Cole gefunden. Sie wurde entführt, festgehalten und dann ermordet. Bei der Obduktion wird klar, dass der Täter ihr zwei Hautstücke entfernt hat. DI Luc Callanach und seine Chefin DCI Ava Turner nehmen die Ermittlungen auf, doch der Täter hat kaum Spuren hinterlassen. Dann verschwindet eine weitere Frau, und ihr Baby wird zurückgelassen in einer Seitenstraße gefunden. Im Kinderwagen liegt eine Puppe - genäht aus der Haut von Zoey Cole.

Die Leiche einer jungen Frau wird an der Flanke vom Arthur’s Seat, Edinburghs Hausberg, gefunden. Schnell stellt sich ihr Tod als Giftmord heraus. Dann stirbt die Leiterin einer Wohltätigkeitsorganisation - auch sie wurde vergiftet. War derselbe Täter am Werk? DI Callanach und DCI Turner begeben sich auf die Jagd. Eine Jagd, die keinen Fehltritt duldet und eine schwere Entscheidung fordert: Sind sie bereit, für die Ergreifung des Mörders die eigenen Regeln zu brechen?