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In this gritty, mystery series debut, a lone wolf detective must use her wits to nab a serial killer terrorizing Edinburgh professionals.
If it was me, if I was the murderer, Alice thought, where would I go? What would I do? The job he had set himself was unfinished, he must be aware that his luck could not go on forever. It was a simple calculation; at best, a lifetime in prison, at worst he'd be killed by the police while attempting to complete...
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On a freezing midwinter night in Leith, a policewoman's flashlight stabs the darkness in a snow-covered cemetery. The circle of light stops on a colorless, dead face. So begins the hunt for a serial murderer of prostitutes requiring Alice Rice to plunge into a hidden world where sex is bartered for money and drugs. At the same time, Alice's off-duty life continues its uneven course, as her romance with artist Ian Melville offers the prospect of happiness...
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As Heather Brodie kisses her lover goodnight, her disabled husband lies dead, his throat cut from ear to ear. Who wanted Gavin Brodie dead? Many people, including Gavin Brodie. Crushed by an incurable illness, he pleaded to be allowed to die.
When DS Alice Rice is brought in to investigate, another terminally ill man is found murdered. It could be a coincidence-or it could be something much more sinister: a serial killer preying on the sick and infirm....
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A Scottish detective investigates a suspicious death with ties to a wind farm in this mystery by the author of Blood in the Water.
When the body of a retired sheriff is discovered in his grand house in the New Town of Edinburgh, Detective Sergeant Alice Rice finds herself hunting his killer. The search leads her to an unfamiliar world where wind-farm developers with millions of pounds at stake and protesters face each other with daggers drawn....
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Scottish detective Alice Rice puts her career-and life-on the line in this "excellent crime novel" from the author of No Sorrow to Die (Scottish Field).
When the body of a half-clothed woman is discovered in an Edinburgh park, a murder investigation is launched. The victim has not been reported missing, and there are few clues to her identity. Soon after, the naked corpse of a prominent clergyman is found, also in a park. DS Alice Rice wonders if...
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A young disabled girl is lost on a winter's night in Leith, unable to help herself or find her way home. Someone is combing the streets, frantically searching for her. Within hours of her disappearance, a body is washed up on Beamer Rock, a tiny island in the River Forth being used as part of the foundations for the new Queensferry bridge. No sooner has Det. Inspector Alice Rice managed to discover the identity of that body than another one is washed...