DS Kate Power is back in the Fraud Squad, understaffed, under?funded and under the leadership of a hostile boss, with a complex case involving the forgery of a will.
Still finding her feet in Birmingham, DS Kate Power is back in the Fraud Squad, under-staffed, under-funded and under the leadership of a hostile boss, jealous of Kate's relationship with DI Graham Harvey. But if Graham's marriage keeps him from Kate, Kate's new case makes her neglect him: a complex case involving a forged will soon includes murder and an investigation into what may have been an unnatural death a generation ago.

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Quint Dalrymple's first investigation outside the former Scotland combines a taut highly original thriller with pungent political comment.

'This futuristic series is still refreshingly original and entertaining' Sunday Telegraph

It's April 2028. Youth gangs roam the streets of independent Edinburgh, forcing the ruling Council of City Guardians to seek advice. Experts from the utopian university- state of New Oxford recommend an extreme deterrent - a maximum security prison alongside the central tourist zone. But at the prison opening ceremony an Edinburgh guardian is shot,
Quint gathers evidence linking New Oxford to the assassination. Sent there to close the case, he finds a ruthless administration beneath the glossy hi-tech veneer. And a conspiracy which leads from New Oxford's mysterious heart - the place known only as the House of Dust - to his home city.

The fifth darkly compelling psychological thriller to feature Edinburgh DI, Jim Meldrum.

After a fraught dinner with his ex-wife and her husband, DI Jim Meldrum escapes early to drown the experience. Next morning he awakes in an expensive Edinburgh hotel with bruised knuckles, aching ribs and no memory of how he got there. Over by the window, a woman he doesn't know is getting dressed. If she is to be believed, they have spent the night as lovers. Later that day, the body of a man beaten to death is discovered in an unoccupied room of the second floor of the Hamilton Hotel. The room next to the one in which Meldrum woke up. Who was the dead man? And who killed him? Tormented by doubts as to what might have happened during the hours he can 't remember on the night of the murder, Meldrum conducts his search for the truth.

'An intriguing and intelligent thriller' Sunday Telegraph
'A modern crime fable that manages to engage with the sordid without becoming overcome by its stench ... An entertaining read, to be savoured for its wry, literate dialogue, and compelling noirish atmosphere' The List
'A thoroughly gripping read' Scotland on Sunday
'A most satisfying and chilling read' Irish Times
'Intelligent, entertaining, gripping and well written' Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday

London fire-fighter Pat O'Keeffe brings to searing life the brutal world of firefighting and crime in East London in his first novel.

Stephen Jay is a fireman on the edge, with crippling debts coming between him and the job he loves. The recent return of his unfaithful partner Jenny has only made his problems worse, and has done nothing to quell the burning hate he feels for the man he blames for this chaos - Kris Mayle.
His troubles are only beginning. As Station Officer, he and his watch are tested to the limit when they have to deal with a horrific fire in a fashion store in East London. And then an old friend offers him serious money to investigate an old case from the past and one family's predilection for fires. How could he refuse?
That choice plunges Steve into a nightmare of arson and murder.

An Archy McNally novel by Vincent Lardo

When Sabrina Wright, bestselling author of sumptuous tales of love lost and found, asks Archy McNally's help to find her missing husband, Archy quickly discovers it's not a simple domestic case. Sabrina's husband did not disappear: it was her daughter who ran off and Sabrina sent the girl's stepfather to find her. Both of them seem to have got lost... Gillian Wright fled to Palm Beach when she heard the true story of her birth: that Sabrina had the girl out of wedlock, put her up for adoption, then adopted her. But when local gossips get wind of the story, tongues wag and three different Palm Beach socialites come to Archy to confess their paternity and beg Archy's help to protect them from any scandal. Then Sabrina turns up dead, and Archy must take a chance - and hope to discover which of these gentlemen would kill to keep his secret.

Mystery set in Roman times

In this Roman mystery, Ovid's grandson attempts to return his banished grandfather's ashes to Rome. David Wishart has also written "I, Virgil".

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Marcus Corvinus, one of the liveliest and most engaging of sleuths, makes a welcome return in this baffling and intricate Roman puzzle.

`His learning shines through. He has a feel for ancient times yet uses modern dialogue. This neat trick manages to combine the atmosphere of the ancient world while moving the story quickly and assuredly on. Highly recommended.' Yorkshire Evening Press

David Wishart studied Classics at Edinburgh University, before teaching Latin and Greek in school for four years. He now lives with his wife and family in Scotland.