Denise Mina

A family's Sunday evening in Glasgow is shattered by a group of armed men in balaclavas. Held at gunpoint for a ransom of millions, the family insist they don't have access to that sort of money, only for the attackers to kidnap the grandfather.

This breathtakingly tense work is a tale of sex, seduction, secrets and lies, one that looks at history through a modern lens and explores the lengths that men - and women - will go to in the search for love and power. It's Saturday evening, 9 March 1566, and Mary, Queen of Scots, is six months pregnant. She's hosting a supper party. Outside, Edinburgh is bustling. It?s full of the Great and the Good and the Idiot Sons of the Rich, here for a Parliament...

31st August, 1997. Rose Wilson is 14, but looks 16. Pimped out by her 'boyfriend' and let down by a person she thought she loved, she has seen more of the darkness in life than someone twice her age. On the night of Princess Diana's death - a night everyone will remember - Rose snaps and commits two terrible crimes. Her life seems effectively over.