Cathleen McCarron

Loch Lomond is a mile deep but the woman's body surfaced anyway. Found bludgeoned and dumped in the water, she now haunts Iain Fraser, the man who put her there. Nearby Helensburgh is a seeming idyllic town, but it is shot through with deception, lies and vested interests. As DI Alex Morrow seeks the killer, she uncovers a connection too close to home - and the case is gets more personal than she could possibly imagine.

When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. The victim seems to belong to the distant past - until new evidence suggests otherwise, and Karen is called in to unravel a case where nothing is as it seems. It soon becomes clear that she's dealing with a version of justice terrifyingly different to her own . . .

When Anna's husband announces that he's leaving her for her best friend and taking their two daughters with him, her world is shattered. She distracts herself with a true-crime podcast, but when she recognises one of the victims she is convinced that only she knows what really happened. With nothing left to lose, she throws herself into investigating the case. But then her past and present lives collide, sending everything she has worked so hard to achieve into freefall.

Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. Nothing is missing from her her carefully timetabled life... except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself, but surely any change is better than… fine?

It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz.In the newly-installed Botanic Garden, the Agave Americana plant looks set to flower - an event that only occurs once every few decades.

When newly widowed Elizabeth arrives in Edinburgh, she's determined to put her unhappy past in London behind her. As she settles into her new home, she becomes fascinated by the beautiful Botanic Garden and offers her services as an artist to record the rare plant's impending bloom. In this pursuit, she meets Belle Brodie, a vivacious young woman with a passion for botany and the lucrative, dark art of perfume creation.

Belle is determined to keep both her real identity and the reason for her interest the Garden secret from her new friend. But as Elizabeth and Belle are about to discover, secrets don't last long in this Enlightenment city…

One family, two holidays, one devastating secret. To new nanny Amanda, the Temple family seem to have it all: the former actress; the famous professor; their three successful grown-up children. But like any family, beneath the smiles and hugs there lurks far darker emotions. Sixteen years earlier, little Niamh Temple died while they were on holiday in Portugal. Now, as Amanda joins the family for a reunion at their seaside villa, she begins to suspect one of them might be hiding something terrible… And suspicion is a dangerous thing.

When a lone robber bursts into a busy Glasgow post office carrying an AK-47 and shoots dead an elderly man, DS Alex Morrow is called in to investigate. As she searches for the killer she discovers a hidden, sinister political network. Soon it is chillingly clear that no corner of the city is safe, and her involvement will go deeper than she could ever have imagined. X rated, contains offensive language.

In a remote hunting lodge, deep in the Scottish wilderness, old friends gather for New Year.

The beautiful one
The golden couple
The volatile one
The new parents
The quiet one
The city boy
The outsider

The victim.

Not an accident – a murder among friends.

Nobody remembers Anne Quirk now, but this elderly woman was in her youth a pioneer of British documentary photography. When her beloved grandson, Luke, returns home to Scotland, Anne's secret story begins to emerge, along with his, as they set out for an old guest house in Blackpool where she once kept a room.

It's hard enough having a baby on your own. But for Imogen, 24 years old and blind since birth, it will be harder than most. Her journey will take her from heartache to hope and back again. But Imogen has never let blindness rule her life, and she isn't going to start now...

When a teenager crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a connection to an unsolved murder from twenty-two years before. Meanwhile, Karen Pirie finds herself drawn into another mystery that has its roots in a terrorist bombing two decades ago. X rated, contains graphic violence.

Lauren and her father Niall live alone in the Highlands, in a small village surrounded by pine forest. In a community where daughters rebel, men quietly rage, and drinking is a means of forgetting, mysteries are not out of the ordinary. Like the disappearance of Lauren's mother a decade ago. Lauren looks for answers in her tarot cards, hoping she might one day be able to read her father's turbulent mind. Neighbours know more than they let on, but when local teenager Ann-Marie goes missing it's no longer clear who she can trust.

The Jacobite rebellion has failed catastrophically and Scotland is reeling in the devastating aftermath of the battle of Culloden. Far to the west, on an island in the Outer Hebrides, twenty-four-year-old Flora Macdonald is woken in the dead of night by a messenger with urgent intelligence. Bonnie Prince Charlie is outside, begging for her help. With Flora's assistance, the Stuart prince is disguised as an Irish maid and smuggled to the Isle of Skye, evading government troops.

Flora's bravery and determination will see her immortalised in ballads and proclaimed a Scottish heroine. But her efforts also result in her capture and detention in London. Released the following year and returning to Skye, Flora goes on to marry and emigrate to North Carolina, only then to be caught up in the American Revolutionary War. In Pretty Young Rebel, award-winning biographer Flora Fraser tells the remarkable story of Flora Macdonald. It is a tale of adventure and daring, wit and charm, struggle and survival, and of a woman who showed extraordinary courage in the face of great danger.

As DI Alex Morrow investigates the death of a young businessman, she uncovers a vicious network of power and corruption that reaches back to Glasgow on the night Princess Diana died. And to a fourteen-year-old girl sat in a car with a dead body, the murder weapon still in her hand.

On a freezing winter morning, fishermen pull a body from the sea. It is discovered that the dead man was the prime suspect in a decade-old investigation, when a prominent civil servant disappeared without trace. DCI Karen Pirie was the last detective to review the file and is drawn into a sinister world of betrayal and dark secrets. She uncovers a network of lies that has gone unchallenged for years. But secrets can turn deadly when someone is determined to keep them hidden for good..

The children of Mivtown have grown up hearing the legend of the monsters of the loch. But it’s only a story – a warning to stay away from the water. Then strange things start happening in the village. Effie’s rabbit Buster escapes from a locked hutch, her mum disappears without trace and slugs start to infest her home. Along with her best friend Finn, Effie begins to hunt for clues to solve the mysteries of Mivtown. Could this all be connected to the legend? Is it really just a story or is there something lurking in those deep, dark waters?