Caro Ramsay Boeken

Glasgow, 1984. Het leek een eenvoudige opdracht. De jonge rechercheur Alan McAlpine moet in een ziekenhuis de wacht houden bij een vrouw die op sterven ligt. Zij heeft geen naam, en haar gezicht is verminkt door zoutzuur. Alan en de vrouw communiceren met elkaar door vingerbewegingen. Maar de vrouw vertelt niet hoe ze heet, wie de vader is van haar pas geboren dochtertje en wie het zoutzuur in haar gezicht heeft gegooid.Tweeëntwintig jaar later. Alan McAlpine is een gevierd hoofdinspecteur. Hij leidt de jacht op een man die in de pers de Kruisigingmoordenaar wordt genoemd. Twee vrouwen zijn al dood. Hun verminkte lichamen zijn gevonden met gespreide armen en met de voeten gekruist bij de enkel. Tijdens hun onderzoek stuiten McAlpine en zijn assistenten Anderson en Costello op een oude, nooit opgeloste zaak. Heden en verleden raken verstrengeld. De obsessie, die ooit begon in een ziekenhuiskamer, heeft Alan nooit echt losgelaten. Met gruwelijke gevolgen..

A young woman is missing, but has she run away - or been captured? A dying cop asks DCI Christine Caplan to fulfil her last wish: to investigate a cold case that's still preying on her mind. The naked body of a young man that was found in a lonely wood, dismissed as a down and out by her superiors. Caplan connects the case to other victims left to die in the bleak Scottish forests, injured and unable to escape. As the scent grows stronger, the cold cases seem suddenly dangerously hot. In this thrilling hunt for the missing girl, Caplan must trace where love and control get out of hand, and question where power lies in any relationship. Meanwhile, the dark nights of Scotland conceal a terrifying game of cat and mouse . . . This gripping Scottish police procedural meets twisted psychological thriller, featuring a complex and fascinating female protagonist, is a perfect choice for fans of tartan noir and authors Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and William McIlvanney.

The body of a young woman is found drifting lifelessly on the outgoing tide. Before detectives Anderson and Costello can make headway, they are pulled off the case to investigate the murder of a pensioner in his own home - and they uncover a number of secrets in the dead man's past. Secrets that link to another murder more than forty years before.

Two bodies are discovered at a cottage in a remote highland glen: one in the kitchen; the other sprawled outside in the snow. The killer would appear to have arrived and left without leaving a trace, not even a footprint in the snow. As the snow piles higher, detectives Anderson and Costello put their wits to solving a seemingly impossible crime.

In their third mystifying case, Glaswegian police duo Anderson and Costello must solve the murder of a criminal with a mutilated face

It's been four years since four-year-old Johnny Clearwaterdisappeared without trace one afternoon. On the night a new TV documentaryseries revisiting the case is broadcast, detectives Anderson and Costello arecalled to investigate the murder of a female police officer, and a link isdiscovered between the dead woman and the missing young boy

DI Costello must break the rules if she is to catch a ruthless killer in the tenth Anderson and Costello thriller

Evie McCulloch's sister Sophie has been missing for 57 days. She went out for a run - and never came home. Elvie's efforts to find out what happened to Sophie, and to the other local missing girls, will find her pitted against a terrifying enemy. Someone who has killed before, someone who will kill again. Someone they call The Night Hunter.

For DI Colin Anderson, there's no such simple thing as right and wrong.As his seemingly clear-cut conviction of paedophile Skelpie Fairbairn is declared unsafe, Anderson finds himself under investigation. Pressure on the DI mounts as an elusive criminal mastermind known as the Puppeteer seems to be the link in a series of alarming events: a gangster torched alive; a teenage boy tortured then dropped off a bridge; and the suicide of a cop working on a decades-old, unsolved child kidnapping.When a young girl dies in Anderson's arms after being left to drown, he is at his wits' end. With Fairbairn as his only lead, is he prepared to dance with the devil to solve her murder?

In the small Highland village of Cronchie, a wealthy family are found brutally murdered in a satanic ritual and their heirloom, 'the devil stone', is the only thing stolen. The key suspects are known satanists - case closed? But when DCI Christine Caplan is brought in to investigate, experience soon tells her that this is no open and shut case!