IIt's winter in Glasgow, and someone is killing prominent members of the city's business community in this haunting, atmospheric new thriller from the bestselling author of The Bad Fire and Jig. Glasgow December, all freezing rains and sleet that bites like schools of piranha. In this city of icy pavements and Christmas street decorations battered by arctic winds, the body of a well-dressed man is found hanging from the girders of a railway bridge... Investigating the case is Lou Perlman, a detective whose idea of a good suit is anything that fits him. Perlman feels that this is no suicide, and that something about the corpse reminds him of his boyhood in the old Gorbals. Perlman is a man with secrets of his own and, as one death follows another, the hunt for the killer takes him into a territory of deceit and greed -- a world of old allegiances that are lethal to reawaken.

A new' Christie for Christmas' - a full-length novel adapted from her acclaimed play by Charles Osborne.

When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story.
But is it possible that Laura Wanvick did not commit the murder after all! If so, who is she shielding! Perhaps the victim's retarded young half-brother, his dying matriarchal mother or Laura's lover! The house seems full of possible suspects.

From the author of THE ABDUCTION and THE INFORMANT, a thriller in which a man finds a box full of money in his dead father's attic, and so he sets out to find the truth about his family. He is accompanied by a young woman, and together they follow the clues that could lead either to great wealth or to death.