A Horrific shooting incident at a private school just north of Edinburgh: two seventeen-year-olds killed by an ex-Army loner who has gone off the rails. A man who finally turns the gun on himself. As Dective Inspector John Rebus puts it, 'there's no mystery'...except the why. Read More...

Gordon Reeve is ex-SAS and his journalist brother has been found dead in a car, a presumed suicide; but Gordon has several questions, and he is not one to let questions go unanswered, particularly when his brother's murderers come knocking on his own front door. Read More...

The death of a TV reporter from a single bullet wound to the heart - a dramatic news story, an unsolved crime... and this time it's the man who fired the bullet who's asking all the questions. Michael Weston wants to know how come the police were on his tail so quickly. Read More...

Witch is a terrorist - one of the best - but this job is going to test even her to the very limit. This time her cold calculation may desert her just when she needs it most. Dominic Elder's hunch takes him from England to Europe and back... Read More...

It was from the office of his newspaper that Frank Spargo had strolled homeward early one morning, in that summer of 1912. Passing Middle Temple Lane, he became one of the first to see the corpse, and fell headlong into the search for the murderer. Read More...

Serpent in Eden. Or so it appears when a sultry exotic dancer named Eve is found strangled by her dancing partner, a sinuous python. Kramer and Zondi investigate. Read More...

Who would want to kill Hugo Swart, by all accounts a quiet civil employee and pious young bachelor? To Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his Bantu assistant, Sergeant Mickey Zondi, the case looks straightforward: Swart's manservant did it. But there are no easy answers this time - only a growing conviction that the risks involved in nabbing Swart's killer may be greater than they ever imagined. Read More...

Murder with a bicycle spoke. A technique perfected by Bantu gangs... It looks like a flea bite. Theresa Le Roux was a pretty young music teacher, who gave very private lessons. But for a mix-up at the undertakers no one would have known she had been murdered. Read More...

'Murder was not altogether a bad thing', mused Lieutenant Kramer of the Trekkersburg Murder Squad. But this one was. A twelve-year-old boy is found strangled and hideously mutilated. It looks like the work of a sex killer. Read More...

At first, it looked much like any other dead body. Breathtaking in its own way, of course, but nothing special... Then he saw that it far exceeded his expectations. He saw the arm bones fractured by a knot that must have been tightened by nothing less than a giant of a man, a human gorilla ... Read More...