Val McDermid

When a skeleton is discovered hidden at the top of a gothic Victorian building in Edinburgh, cold case squad detective Karen Pirie is given the task of identifying the decades-old bones. However, her investigation leads her back to past conflicts, false identities and buried secrets. Originally published: London: Little, Brown, 2014

The past is behind them, but what?s still to come will tear them apart? Some things just won?t let go. The past, for instance. That night in the cemetery. The girl?s body in the snow. On a freezing Fife morning four drunken students stumble upon the body of a woman in the snow. Rosie has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in an ancient Pictish cemetery. And the only suspects are the four young men now stained with her blood. Twenty-five years later...

Private eye Kate Brannigan confronts betrayal and cold-blooded greed as she investigates the alien world of medical experimentation and the underbelly of the rock music business. Kate Brannigan?s not just having a bad day, she?s having a bad week. Her boyfriend?s death notice is in the paper, her plan to catch a team of fraudsters is in disarray and a neo-punk band want her to find out who?s trashing their fly posters. And her business partner wants...

Dr Tony Hill, head of the new National Profiling Task Force, sets his team an exercise: they are given the details of missing teenagers and asked to discover any possible links between the cases. Only one officer comes up with a theory, a theory that is ridiculed by the group? until one of their number is murdered and mutilated. For Tony Hill, the murder becomes a matter for personal revenge and, joined by colleague Carol Jordan, he embarks on a campaign...