our best mate just fell off a cliff in mysterious circumstances and you were the last person to see him alive. What do you do? Well, if you're David Lindsay from Arbroath, you get the hell out of there and don't return. Not for at least fifteen years. Until Nicola Cruickshank - yes, that Nicola,...
She brushed the familiar black wood with her fingers. She’d lived here for so long she knew every knot and whorl, every grain in the surface, every loose floorboard in the hallway, every cracked tile in the bathroom. The dent in the living-room wall where the Wii remote had flown out of Logan’s h...
Nathan’s DS. He ran his hand over the broken lock, rough splinters sticking out. He snagged one on his finger, flinched, but then pushed his finger on to it until he saw a spot of blood appear. ‘How was it?’ Ruth behind him. He sucked at his finger and turned. ...
Billy stood at the top staring at the curve of road stretching down and round past the Standard offices, Dynamic Earth and the parliament. Police officers were congregating at various stages on the slope, milling about, swapping jokes and banter. Billy stared at the police ROAD CLOSED sign. Cars ...
Ethan and Luke had turned up and the six of them were hurtling headlong towards hammered thanks to Roddy’s magic porridge pot of a wallet. Drunken noise made a swirling blizzard around them. ‘Smokeheads?’ said Roddy. Molly leaned in to the middle of the table. ‘It’s what we call fans of Islay mal...
Irrational.She sucked on a bottle of gin they’d found in the back of a cupboard. Winced. Made a face. Who the hell still drank gin in this day and age? It deserved to die in the twentieth century, along with all this other old crap.What struck her now about Ian’s stuff was how dated it all was. T...