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A body is found in a Salt Hedge with a crate of purloined books. Ruan Peat is on the case. Hela believes she has the means to achieve Hungarian Independence, if only she can get her hands on it. No one will be allowed to stand in her way. Greta Finnerty is smuggling a dead English officer through French lines, with urgent news for the Dutch Authorities. Three strands pulling deftly drawn characters together from remote Norwegian mountains, anc...

Hestan Island, marooned in the Solway Firth, tethered to the mainland at low tide by a causeway called The Rack. Hestan is home to two men quietly living out their lives, until a boy is almost crushed to death in their tiny copper mine after which the horrors of their shared past begins to unravel. As truths are revealed we are taken back through the bloody wars of Crimea and the lands of the Tartars, to book burnings, betrayals, and the bond...

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1869, Sutherland, Scotland. For years the people of this remote area of the Highlands have lived a hard life. Now a local Gold Rush has attracted the Pan-European Mining Company to the area, and Solveig McCleery is determined to re-open the Brora mines and give the population the riches they deserve. But when work starts, the body of a prospector is discovered and odd inscriptions are found on stones near the corpse. Before the meanings of th...

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Lukitt Bachman is waiting in his Lanterne de Mortes, a Tower of the Dead, in the middle of a cemetery. He has become an assassin and a murderer, learned the terrible highs and lows of friendships made and lost, and is awaiting now his last remaining friend to set him free so he can put right past wrongs.

The third title in the "Scottish Mysteries" series, it explores the history of a little known part of Scotland.

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Book two in the "Scottish Mysteries" series. When a bag of bones is pulled from the water and the assistant to an eccentric owner of the lead mines is found murdered - what's the connection?

Peder lives at Castle Krumsky, an Academy for Gifted Children. When the castle is blown to smithereens it falls to Peder and his friends to lead the survivors to safety, and solve the mystery of what has happened, and why. The Academy teaches its pupils in the arts of the circus, and is the HQ for Cirtex, a shadowy organisation who roam the Empire far and wide, entertaining people and solving mysteries at the same time. Their biggest enemy in ...

1869, Sutherland, Scotland, and the Kildonan Gold Rush is in full swing. Then one of the panners is murdered, and strange marks left on stones where he is found. Brogar Finn and Sholto McKay are on hand to investigate the extent of the Gold Rush, and it falls to them to solve this murder, and the others that soon follow. The language is rich with the places and times, from the volcanic eruption in Iceland that covers the land with ash, to the ...

Scotland and Ireland 1798. Three people, two murders, one oath.

In a race against time and treachery a young woman must survive, a lost legacy must be found and a city must be saved

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Philbert is born with a disfiguring inflammation of the skull. Abandoned and with only a pet pig for company, he eventually finds refuge in a traveling carnival before embarking on an altogether darker and more perilous journey.

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A sumptuous feast for the senses that chronicles the early life of a very special boy as he makes a fantastic and epic journey with a travelling carnical across the dark and troubled landscape of 1840s Germany. A book that will be savoured by fans of Mervyn Peake's "Gormenghast" trilogy, Erin Morgenstern's "The Night Circus" or Patrick Suskind's "Perfume".

The first in a new series of historical crime novels, set in Scotland in 1869. From the author of "The Anatomist's Dream", which was longlisted for the 2016 Baileys Women's Prize.

Playfully elegant and effortlessly seductive' Telegraph