A visit to her local prison brings DI Vera Stanhope face to face with an old enemy: former detective..

In the dark days of a Shetland winter torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Ler..

News of the murder first came to Inspector Stephen Ramsay early on Monday morning. They found the st..

When 15-year-old Marilyn Howe turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay's doorstep he has li..

DCI Hannah Scarlett is an acknowledged expert in solving cold cases but she is struggling under the ..

Gus Lynch is directing the Youth Theatre through a rehearsal. The cast is in place but the female le..

Drawn in by the reputation of the islands a new English family move to the area eager to give their ..

More than 50 years ago Peter Lovesey published a short story in an anthology. That short story caugh..

SOCO Maya Barton is called to a canal where a heavily decomposed male body has been discovered. A ba..

For vicar’s wife Dorothea Cassidy Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the..

The Stonebridge Regatta is looming. The town's annual face-off against neighbouring Meadowfield is u..

Rob fears for her daughters. For Callie who collects tiny bones and whispers to imaginary friends. F..

No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry. But here she is murdered in her own ba..

Serial killers never retire. They just go on hiatus. The urge to kill is always there bubbling below..

At a costume party with the dubious theme of 'famous murderers and their victims' the know-it-all am..