Denise Mina
Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
William Watt wants answers about his family's murder. Peter Manuel has them. But Peter Manuel is a liar. William Watt is an ordinary businessman, a fool, a social climber. Peter Manuel is a famous liar, a rapist, a criminal. He claims he can get hold of the gun used to murder Watt's family. One December night in 1957, Watt meets Manuel in a Glasgow bar to find out what he knows. Based on true events, The Long Drop is an extraordinarily unsettling,...
Author
Series
Publisher
[Titan]
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
John Constantine's trip to Scotland has ended in disaster, as Steve Evans' well-intentioned Empathy Engine has caused mass suicides and the quarantine of Glasgow. Now John, Evans, Angie, Chas and a motley crew of survivors must seek the cause of the horror, while desperately trying to stave off its terrible effects.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The complicity of an old man in his own death, a promiscuous politician and a bag of untraceable money - one city, three crimes and a powerful connection that runs from Glasgow's dark criminal underworld to the international spheres of the super rich.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Loch Lomond is a mile deep but the woman's body surfaced anyway. Found bludgeoned and dumped in the water, she now haunts Iain Fraser, the man who put her there. She trusted him and now that misplaced trust is gnawing through Iain's chest. He thinks it will kill him. Nearby Helensburgh is an idyllic Victorian town. One-time home to a quarter of all the millionaires in Britain, it is quaint, sleepy and chocolate-box pretty. But the real town is shot...
9) Confidence
Author
Series
Anna and Fin volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When Lisa Lee, a vulnerable young woman, vanishes from a pretty Scottish seaside town, Anna and Fin find themselves at the centre of an internet frenzy to find her. Her last film on her YouTube channel shows her breaking into an abandoned French chateau with other urban explorers, and stumbling across a priceless Roman silver casket. After Lisa vanishes, the item is listed for auction in Paris, with a description claiming that its contents could have...
Author
Publisher
Titan
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Meet the Ushers. Just a normal middle-class family. Until they start dying. Violent deaths. One by one. Is there a curse on their house, as recently unearthed history of witchcraft in the area would suggest? Or has one member of the Usher clan declared open season on the rest?
12) The Red Road
Author
Publisher
Orion Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
31st August, 1997. Rose Wilson is 14, but looks 16. Pimped out by her 'boyfriend' and let down by a person she thought she loved, she has seen more of the darkness in life than someone twice her age. On the night of Princess Diana's death - a night everyone will remember - Rose snaps and commits two terrible crimes. Her life seems effectively over. But then a defence lawyer takes pity and sets out to do what he can to save her, regardless of the consequences....