Johnny Jerome is a hard-nosed Private Detective in a city plagued with crime
and vice. When a simple missing person case suddenly escalates into a run in
with the local mob and a whole heap of trouble… And that’s when the...
Edinburgh, ‘a mad god’s dream / Fitful and dark’, is about to become the home of the first Scottish parliament in nigh on three hundred years. It’s a momentous time and political passions run high...
Detective Inspector John Rebus is...
The first crime novel featuring Inspector Ramsay, whose reputation hangs in the balance as he investigates the murder of a headmaster in a close-knit Northumbrian pit...
It is 1321 and the King's favourite, Hugh Despenser, is corruptly using his position to steal lands and wealth from other lords. His rapacity has divided the nation and civil war looms.
In Tiverton rape and murder have unsettled the folk...
On the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing sun. He calculates his chances of survival – even before they departed for France, a...
MacDonald apparently loathes the Hollywood scene, and he creates some characters to show us why. (A couple of times during the series Travis reels off a list of things he has no use for, and "actresses" are included.) There's a new character...
Is it just a case of summertime
blues or a full-blown career
crisis? Newspaper reporter Jim
Qwilleran isn't sure, but he's
hoping a few days in the
country will help him sort out his life.
With cats Koko and Yum Yum
for company, Qwilleran heads
for...