The Glasgow Orchestra is rehearsing to perform, but little do they know of the sequence of events happening backstage. When George Millar, the orchestra s leader, is brutally murdered in his dressing room, his colleagues are shocked. But the show must go on. Enter DCI Lorimer and psychologist Sol...
When a series of young women are discovered strangled and mutilated in a Glasgow park, it is up to DCI Lorimer to find their killer. He enlists the services of Dr Solomon Brightman, a psychologist and criminal profiler.
The boys usually took the bus or, if it fitted in with his own timetable, cadged a lift with Gary in his Mini Cooper. ‘Phew! Glad we got these seats!’ Kirsty exclaimed, flopping down opposite the Swedish girl. Already she felt hot and uncomfortable after running up the ste...
As he dodged the crumpled chip papers and discarded beer cans that littered the entrance the man’s trainers made no sound, stealth being a habit he practised nowadays without thinking. Getting in had been easier than he’d expected; the outer door had been left ajar for some reason and a young Asi...
The wind was still high, tree branches swaying, leaves scattering as they drove past. Autumn was here now for sure, the equinox long past and October promising darker days ahead. What must it be like living out here amongst these bleak hills, surrounded by fields and fields, only the occasional c...
Does Leigh Quinn fit your profile?’ Lorimer asked, taking his eyes off the road for a moment and turning to Solly with a scarcely contained excitement. Solly said nothing. This was the moment he’d been dreading. He’d been waiting for just such a question from the DCI and h...
Everyone on the floor!’ Kevin Patterson’s mouth opened but no sound came from his lips. As the tall man brandishing a sawn-off shotgun came rushing towards him, customers and bank staff threw themselves onto the ground in sudden panic. A second man was standing in the middle of the room, his weap...