Alanna Knight

Balmoral Castle, 1905. For Rose McQuinn, a cottage on the Royal estate promises a summer of unaccustomed luxury. But the holiday takes a darker turn when Rose is warned not to interfere in two deaths that occur soon after her arrival. When the sinister tide of events threatens her own family, Rose is determined to track down the killer lurking among the sportsmen - a killer whose aim is to bring down more than just the game birds.

When Rose McQuinn discovers the body of a woman in the ruins of St Anthony's Chapel, she is astonished that on returning to the scene, there is no evidence of either the victim or the local constable who had taken down Rose's story. Convinced of what she saw Rose pursues discreet investigations that soon turn into a more dangerous pursuit.

Inspector Faro is invited to dinner at the house of the city's foremost police surgeon. Then the police surgeon's wife is reported missing, and a woman's torn and bloodstained cloak is found, but neither body nor real proof is present. As revelations regarding the woman's home life become more sinister and bizarre, Faro is convinced she is dead, and who has better opportunity for disposing the corpse of an unwanted wife than a police surgeon..

Rose McQuinn has agreed to help her neighbour, Mrs. Lawer, by delivering what she claims to be a family legacy to her only living relative. But Mrs. Lawer and her maid are found dead upon her return to Edinburgh. Investigating, Rose discovers ties that seem to reveal that the past has not completely left the present.

The autumn of 1897 began well, but Rose McQuinn's stubborn refusal to give up her job as Lady Detective cost her the man she loved. Then when Rose is called upon to discover the identity of a blackmailer and thief, her search for the truth plunges her into dangerous waters.

The events that cause Inspector Faro to reopen the case of 'The Gruesome Convent Murders' lead him into a labyrinth of passions, betrayal and greed concealed behind the respectable middle class exteriors of Edinburgh society.

In a desperate attempt to recover from the loss of her husband and her baby son, Rose McQuinn has returned home to Edinburgh from America. She has little time to ponder her loneliness before she unwittingly steps into the shoes of her father, the legendary Detective Inspector Faro. She agrees to help investigate the strange behaviour of the husband of her childhood friend, Alice. But when Rose starts to get too near the truth, she puts her own life in danger.

During a visit to the island where his mother still lives, Inspector Faro learns that a family friend has died of arsenic poisoning, and his investigation leads him to suspect both his teenage sweetheart and members of his family

1860: The young Inspector Faro stumbles on a plot involving the theft of a priceless jewel. His investigation leads him to Kent, and on to the trail of his nemesis Macheath. A chance encounter with an old friend leads to Faro's sojourn in William Morris's Red House while he continues his search.

The body of a woman is found in an Edinburgh close and the police label it as a random act of violence, until Detective Constable Faro finds a playing card, the nine of diamonds, planted on the corpse. His superiors scoff at his suspicions, but days later a man is attacked in the street, and left with the nine of diamonds in his pocket. Faro seizes on the connection, but what is it that links the victims? Beset by hostile superiors and a policehating public, Faro feels he may never crack this confounding case.

Rose McQuinn is visiting her childhood home on Orkney when an archaeological team stumbles across a body, which is identified as the corpse of a local woman, brutally murdered. Realising that she probably knows the identity of the killer, Rose is all too aware that she could destroy the happiness of those closest to her.

When the circus arrives in Edinburgh, Rose McQuinn is delighted. However, the festivities are overshadowed by the murder of a clerk during a bank robbery and within hours of each other, the identical suicides of two young women. Are these deaths as straightforward as the police claim or could they all be linked to one killer?

A suicide from the unfinished Tay Bridge throws up a trail of sinister events in one of the most baffling and personal dilemmas of Inspector Faro's career involving the future of his doctor stepson Vince Laurie, the poet William McGonagall and a series of crimes which had tragic and far reaching repercussions several years later when the Tay Bridge fell in 1879.

1861. Constable Faro is heading to Orkney, pursuing a private investigation into the mysterious drowning of an ex-colleague’s relative, champion swimmer Dave Claydon. Was this an accident or does Claydon’s death have a sinister connection with missing artefacts recovered from the Armada galleon sunk off Spanish Cove? Faro’s holiday soon turns into a nightmare as finds himself in deadly danger, his life threatened by circumstances beyond his control.