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Some monsters hide in the light… When a young woman is discovered crowned with burnt gorse in a disused quarry in rural Ayrshire, DCI Lomond is tasked with hunting a ritual killer. As his Major Investigations Team peel back the layers of the local communities, they find links to cold cases of...

Some rules are meant to be broken. Some secrets are meant to stay buried. On a military barracks on the outskirts of Glasgow, the body of a vulnerable young soldier is found following a routine training exercise. The upper brass is quick to rule it a tragic accident. But DCI John Lomond is...

For readers of Ian Rankin, JD Kirk and Stuart MacBride, The Dead Bell is the ninth installment of Andrew Raymond's incredible DCI Lomond series of crime thrillers...

Every assassin has a first time… On the backstreets of Lyon, France, an MI6 surveillance team are gunned down in a cold-blooded ambush. Thrust into the hunt for the assassin is the sole survivor – rookie covert operative Duncan Grant. His feats in training are already the stuff of legend...

To catch a traitor, he must become a fugitive... For years, a police mole known only as the Ferryman has operated deep within Police Scotland, feeding secrets to Glasgow’s most brutal crime boss, Frank Gormley. Now, DCI Lomond is closing in on their identity. But when a gangland shooting at a...

After a devastating political assassination, two journalists stand between the truth and a conspiracy that will shock the world. Tom Novak and Stella Mitchell are covering the aftermath of a chilling terror attack on the British Prime Minister and the US Secretary of Defense. But the further the...

A gathering of seven bestselling crime writers at a Scottish Highlands book festival turns deadly in a wickedly dark thriller that pays homage to Agatha Christie’s classic murder mysteries, from the bestselling author of The Bonnie Dead. When legendary crime novelist William MacRae is found...

THE FINAL NOVAK & MITCHELL THRILLER Someone’s making a killing. When the anti-corruption unit of the UK’s intelligence agencies is attacked by gunmen, its director Rebecca Fox turns to the only people she can trust her life with: fearless journalists from The Republic, Tom Novak and Stella...

A stolen child. A killer stalking the streets of Glasgow. A troubled detective running out of time. Five years ago, DCI John Lomond led the search for notorious Glasgow child-killer ‘The Sandman’, until personal tragedy forced him off the case. In Lomond’s absence, the killer was never...

Synchronised assassinations around the world have brought the global intelligence community to its knees. And it’s just the beginning... Caught in the crossfire is MI6 covert operative Duncan Grant, who knows more about the mastermind behind the attack than anyone else. Grant must destroy an...

Some murders leave behind more than just a body... Still mourning the devastating loss of a close colleague, DCI Lomond and his team are called in to investigate a murder on the set of a popular Scottish detective TV show. But the victim isn’t a star actor. It’s the show’s official police...

Meet Detective Constable Mairead Maclean. A fresh force in crime fiction Inexperienced but driven, brilliant yet scarred, Mairead brings the grit of Lisbeth Salander and the resolve of Clarice Starling to a chilling new case. The Long Isle begins with a body on a remote beach in the Hebrides and...

Novak and Mitchell are close to exposing a Russian spy in Congress. But a ruthless assassin and a deep-state organization will do anything to stop them. In Washington, D.C., Russian reporter Andrei Rublov has uncovered the biggest story of his career: a US congressman is spying for the Kremlin...

The British Prime Minister’s police protection unit has been infiltrated by rogue officers. The threat is unprecedented. For Novak and Mitchell, the consequences are unthinkable. Prime Minister, Angela Curtis, faces a threat like never before: resign, or the British establishment will face...

A fast-paced, gripping thriller of betrayal, vengeance, and scandal in the highest places from the bestselling author of Official Secrets and Kill Day. Chasing a ghost. Pursued by demons... When bestselling thriller writer Ian Ferguson’s research gets too close to the enigmatic founder of a...

The past can be a killer. When the dismembered body of a notorious banker washes up on the beach at Luss, DCI John Lomond finds a sinister message carved into the dead man’s forehead. And the same message has just been found on a tortured businessman in Gullane on the east coast. With a...

They were MI6’s most lethal assassins. Killers who lived in the shadows. Until now... MI6 operative Duncan Grant has been officially missing in action for the last six months. Going on deep-cover to hunt down those responsible for the death of a close ally. Half a world away, enjoying sedate...

Some cases should never be reopened… When the remains of a young woman are found at the construction site of the new Govan-Partick Bridge, it appears to close a twenty-year-old cold case from DCI John Lomond’s earliest days as a detective. But a retired detective – Lomond’s former boss...

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, when he was subject to nonstop surveillance and harassment from both human and supernatural spooks, intrepid Fortean investigator John A. Keel made extensive field notes concerning the phenomena he was confronting in West Virginia and New York. In this volume, we look at Keel's favorite articles from Flying Saucers magazine, which was published and edited largely by Ray Palmer. Keel went on record as saying that he thought Palmer was the "father of ufology", and he helped Palmer by submitting many articles to the magazine.

In this poignant short story, a young man confronts his deepest insecurities and ultimately discovers his true self on a day that initially seems like a failure. With disappointment echoing from his family, friends, classmates, and the girl he admires, he embarks on a journey of self-acceptance and growth that will resonate with anyone who has ever faced their own struggles. (Summary by Roger Melin)