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Series
An Alice Rice Mystery volume 1
Publisher
Birlinn
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
This thrilling police-procedural debut from crime writer Gillian Galbraith introduces readers to Alice Rice, Edinburgh?s latest fictional detective and a new female presence in the macho world of crime detection. Galbraith draws on her own experience to give a realistic portrayal of the medical and legal worlds. Smart and capable, but battling disillusionment and loneliness, Alice races against time and an implacable killer to solve a series of grisly...
2) White nights
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Series
Shetland Island volume 2
Language
English
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Description
He recognizes the victim - a stranger with amnesia who had disrupted a local party the night before his death. Yet this is no desperate act of anguish, but the work of a cold and calculating killer. As Perez investigates, he finds himself mired in the hidden secrets of the small Biddista community. Then another body is found. Perez knows he must break the cycle before another death occurs. But this is a crazy time of year when night blurs into day...
Author
Series
D.C.I. Daley volume 1
Language
English
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DCI Jim Daley is sent from the city to investigate a murder, after the body of a woman is washed up on an idyllic beach on the West Coast of Scotland. Far away from urban resources, he finds himself a stranger in a close-knit community. Love, betrayal, fear and death stalk the small town, as Daley investigates a case that becomes more deadly than he could possibly imagine, in this compelling Scottish crime novel infused with intrigue and dark humour....
4) Broken skin
Author
Series
Logan McRae volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The Granite City?s seedy side is about to be exposed? A serial rapist is leaving a string of tortured women behind him, but while DS Logan McRae?s girlfriend, PC Jackie ?Ball Breaker? Watson, is out acting as bait, he?s trying to identify a blood-drenched body dumped outside Accident and Emergency.Logan?s investigations suggest someone in the local bondage community has developed a taste for violent death, and he soon finds himself dragged into the...
Author
Publisher
Birlinn
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It is the story of these crimes and of the thirty year investigation that followed. This is not a gruesome tale of murder; the families of these young girls have suffered enough. Nor is this account devoted to the controversy in which the trial of Angus Sinclair was brought to an end in the Autumn of 2007.This is a story of heroes, of the families of Helen and Christine who, with a quiet dignity, have carried an unimaginable burden down the years,...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
STRAMASH Something fishy is happening on the isle of Jura. DS Logan McRae gets a phone call from DI Steel ordering him to come to the island at once. One freezing night?s sleep in a hatchback and two storm-battered ferries later, Logan arrives - but there?s no sign of Steel. She's lumped him in the middle of a policing nightmare, with bodies, and bullets, and tiny wee boats. And a dangerous hard man who?s meant to be dead? BAD HEIR DAY Why is DI Steel...
7) Cold granite
Author
Series
Logan McRae volume 1
Language
English
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Description
It's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse. Four-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch, strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. There's a killer stalking the Granite City and the local media are baying for blood.
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