Ed James

A young woman. A bath full of chlorine. A killer who knew exactly what they were doing. When Brooke Trotter is found dead in her family home in Jedburgh, DCI Rob Marshall arrives to find a crime scene that has been methodically erased. No prints. No DNA. No obvious motive.

The chase is on–and time is running out. Holly Fenwick thought she had left her nightmare behind. Twelve years ago, she narrowly escaped the clutches of a brutal serial killer. Now, while she films a documentary in Eyemouth in the Scottish Borders, to recover from her ordeal and rebuild her...

A teenage girl. A message on a mirror. A mother who can't remember the night before.When fifteen-year-old Olivia Deacon vanishes from her Edinburgh bedroom overnight, the only evidence is a cracked mirror with two words written in red: NEVER FORGET. Her mother woke at half past six and found the...

A killer hides deep in the darkness… DI Rob Marshall is stuck in Gartcosh, leading the new Behavioural Sciences Unit – a staff of one and a third – where he’s executing a fruitless hunt, profiling every single murder in Scotland just in case they’re serial cases. But when a young...

A missing baby. A desperate woman on the run. A truth nobody wants uncovered.

A body found under ancient Edinburgh. A hidden serial killer. Things are finally going well for Acting Detective Sergeant Scott Cullen Scott Cullen. He’s just moved in with his girlfriend and, thanks to the recent police force merger, the promotion he craves is almost in reach.

Fear stalks familiar ground. Acting DCI Rob Marshall is back in the Borders with a permanent promotion dangled in front of him – but storm clouds are gathering, with his new boss eyeing cutting Marshall’s Major Investigation Team. When a seventeen-year-old boy is found murdered in Hawick...

A dead body in a twisted car. A detective torn in two. DC Scott Cullen likes to play hard and fast with the rules. While it might antagonise his colleagues and superiors, it gets results.

The Hunted is a fast-paced police procedural, full of action and suspense that will grip you until its breathless conclusion.

Hogmanay. New Year's Eve. A dead teenager, another missing. One hell of a case. Meet DS Vicky Dodds. Settling down for a nice Hogmanay with her daughter and her best friend, a phone call pulls DS Vicky Dodds into work and to a deadly new case. A teenage girl, her body cooling in a cold, dark...

A serial killer’s secret grave. Another murderer’s victims. The case that broke Rob Marshall crashes back into his life. Ten years ago, Marshall profiled a serial killer the press had dubbed the Shadow Man, who killed six young athletes at remote sites in cold blood, and he worked with...

The serial killer he couldn’t catch is dead.... Can DI Rob Marshall save his last victim before she dies too? Met cop DI Rob Marshall is hot on the trail of the serial killer known as the Chameleon, who has abducted, tortured, and killed a series of young women in Northwest London. As they...

St Andrew’s Day. A back shift from hell. A city about to erupt. After years working as detective, Sergeant Rakesh Siyal is back in uniform and facing the hard realities of Edinburgh’s streets. With a missing teenager sucking away manpower, his frontline team have to contend with a pub fight...

When a leading Scottish politician doesn't turn up at work one morning, it seems like a simple missing persons case to Brian Bain. But then a big news story lands and things don't seem to be so clear cut.

DI Sam Winter is pulled into the abduction of Barnaby and Marina Harkness, taken while their father—MSP Chris Harkness—sat in a Holyrood committee room, doing his best to shield a billionaire from a financial scandal that could bring them both down.

On a cold Christmas Eve in Edinburgh, Detective Constable Scott Cullen investigates the gruesome murder of a local businessman.

A broken body. A secret with deep roots. Just months into his new role, Detective Sergeant Scott Cullen of Police Scotland’s Edinburgh Major Investigation Team is torn by the trials of being a manager.

DS Siyal's first day. The worst first day. DS Rakesh Siyal is an idealist. Frustrated as an Edinburgh human rights lawyer, he joins the police, determined to solve the problems he sees with the criminal justice system from the inside, rather than out. His first day as a cop sees him sent down to...

A cold case. A guilty conscience. A killer still at large. When campaigner Heather McGill forces Police Scotland to reopen the cold case murder of a local sex worker at Scott's View, a beauty spot in the Scottish Borders, she sets off a chain reaction that threatens to unravel decades of secrets...

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