Karen Pirie

Twenty-five years after the unsolved rape and murder of a young girl, four student friends, having been falsely accused of the crime, find themselves targeted by someone who still believes that they are guilty, prompting a search for the real killer. X rated, contains graphic violence.

1984. The miners' strike is dividing the country. Twenty-three years later, a young woman is asking the police to trace her missing father, miner Mick Prentice. Soon, DI Karen Pirie and DS Phil Parharta of the Cold Case Team, find themselves investigating a forgotten disappearance. X rated, contains offensive language and graphic violence.

When a skeleton is discovered hidden at the top of a gothic Victorian building in Edinburgh, which is scheduled for renovation, Cold Case Squad detective Karen Pirie is given the task of identifying the decades-old bones. Her investigation leads her back to past conflicts, false identities and buried secrets... X rated, contains graphic violence.

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.

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 . . .

Book 5 in the Karen Pirie series.

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..

When torrential rain causes a landslide on a motorway in Scotland, it reveals a crime scene: someone hid a body in the tarmac eleven years before. Journalist Sam Nimmo had been the prime suspect in the murder of his fiancée when he disappeared, and now DCI Karen Pirie and her Historic Cases Unit must find out who buried him, and why.

Meanwhile, in Edinburgh, new evidence reopens a closed case and the accidental death of a hotel manager starts to look like murder. But what did Tom Jamieson's book club have to do with his demise - and what will they do to keep their secrets?

Book 8 in the Karen Pirie series.