The Crime Files

1 Tonight Sketty   ‘So, you’re quite the hero, Mr Sketty.’   The man addressing me in a soft Edinburgh accent is Dr Ralph Teller, a short, round individual of about seventy, who reminds me […]

  It was probably a mistake coming to the pub on a Friday. But then again, my whole life’s been a series of mistakes. Take my current situation. I’d only intended to spend a few […]

A girl in a new country. A dark secret left behind. A dead body which might tell all. Ever since she was adopted from an orphanage in Sri Lanka, Paloma has led a privileged Californian […]

Ruth McIver, author of I SHOT THE DEVIL, outlines the the top 3 crime books which inspired her writing.     Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis I was really inspired by Bret Easton Ellis’ Lunar […]

She always knew she would die like this.   They come in the night, crashing through the undergrowth and pushing through the trees. They don’t use the path that meanders up the slope from the […]

Care For Me: A tense and engrossing psychological thriller for fans of Clare Mackintosh.   When Amira takes her mother Afrah to Ravenswood Lodge Care Home, she thinks the will both be safe. But the past […]

The Last Day Four more steps, then he turns around again. Doesn’t trust the silence behind him. All he can hear is the chirping of the grasshoppers. No engines, no birds. He misses the night […]

The Courier: The most gripping, page-turning psychological suspense of 2021     She sees much more than you think . . .   Five years ago, Laurel Lovejoy had it all. The high-powered city job, […]

ONE Then Eighteen Months Ago Barbados A tip-off. That could be the only explanation.   Dreaded realisation filtered through the rows of passengers and crew in the cruise terminal via mutters about delays intermingled with […]

THE MIND-BENDING NEW THRILLER FROM THE NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF DEAR CHILD ‘Hausmann’s novel has the feel of a nightmare, unfolding at breakneck speed’ SUNDAY TIMES   It’s been years since Nadja Kulka was convicted of a […]

Chapter 1   Ike tried to remember a time when men with badges coming to his door early in the morning brought anything other than heartache and misery, but try as he might nothing came […]

PROLOGUE 26 September 2007   The water is rough but the light is calm.   A cool haar blows inland from the open sea. It seems to hang in lavender rolls above the sea loch, […]