Cathleen McCarron

It?s been 17 months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim and Operation Maypole is still no closer to catching him. The media is whipping up a storm, the top brass are demanding results, but the investigation is sinking fast. Now isn?t the time to get distracted with other cases, but Detective Sergeant Lucy McVeigh doesn?t have much choice. When Benedict Strachan was just 11, he hunted down and killed a homeless man. No one?s ever figured...

Mary Shields is a moody, acerbic probation officer, dealing with some of Glasgow?s worst cases and her job is on the line. Liam Macdowall was imprisoned for murdering his wife, and he?s published a series of letters to the dead woman, in a book that makes him an unlikely hero - and a poster boy for men?s rights activists. Liam is released on licence into Mary?s care, but things are far from simple. Mary develops a poisonous obsession with Liam and...

Ailsa Rae is learning how to live. She's only a few months past the heart transplant that - just in time - saved her life. Life should be a joyful adventure. But . . . Her relationship with her mother is at breaking point and she wants to find her father. Have her friends left her behind? She's felt so helpless for so long that she's let polls on her blog make her decisions for her. She barely knows where to start on her own. Then there's Lennox....