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In this thrilling sixth installment of the DI Kelso Strang series, readers are drawn into a complex investigation that challenges the detective's skills and resolve. As Strang navigates a web of deceit and danger, he uncovers hidden motives and dark secrets that threaten to unravel his world. The narrative is packed with suspense, intricate plotting, and character development, making it a gripping read for fans of crime fiction. Expect unexpected twists that keep you guessing until the very end.

The story follows DCI Kelso Strang as he investigates potential corruption at a local police station in the Scottish Borders, prompted by a friend's concerns. He assigns DC Livvy Murray to go undercover, but their plans are derailed by the emergence of a long-hidden secret seeking revenge. As tensions escalate, a fierce storm complicates matters, leaving Strang in a state of frustration and helplessness as he waits for the chaos to subside. The narrative intertwines themes of loyalty, betrayal, and the consequences of buried truths.

DCI Kelso Strang is led to believe that something very odd is going on around the prosperous fishing port of Tarleton on Scotland's south-east coast. Firstly, a young Detective Inspector is traumatised after witnessing a doctor throwing herself off a cliff, and accusations of extortion have riven the local community. And when the ugly death of a young farmer sets off a murder investigation, Strang finds himself caught in a spider's web of criminality. He is entirely unprepared when he is struck by the worst tragedy of his career, even though it has also brought him into contact with a young advocate's assistant called Catriona, daughter of DI Marjory Fleming.

On cold, clear, moonlit night in late October, DCI Kelso Strang stepped outside the bothy on Suilven and heard, faint but unmistakable, the howl of a wolf. An unsettling sound - but it isn't the only unsettling thing about the remote township of Inverbeg in Sutherland, where he's taking a break with an old army friend.

When DCI Kelso Strang hears that an old friend from Police College days suspects there is corruption in her local station at Halliburgh in the Borders of Scotland, he sends her down undercover so they can act before a major scandal erupts.

Beatrice Lacey is passionate about Human Face, the charity she helped to found, and its co-founder. She has learned to turn a blind eye to strange goings on, however; parties for donors who don't seem philanthropic and a merry-go-round of `housekeepers'. But when the latest housekeeper suddenly disappears, DI Kelso Strang is called in.

Memory lapses are causing Gabrielle to question her sanity but knowing the other major shareholder of her father's business is looking for any excuse to squeeze her out, she can't trust anyone. When a man's body is found, DCI Kelso Strang is drafted in to investigate. Will he be able to put this case to rest before more lives are destroyed?

Pleasure is the highest good: the Cyrenaics practised the principle until the death of one from an overdose and the apparent suicide of another. DI Marjory Fleming finds the case on her own patch, but difficulties between members of her team don't make it any easier to solve.

Marnie Bruce has hyperthymesia; she can remember everything she has ever seen. Everything except from one fateful night when she was eleven; she woke up in an isolated cottage with a head injury and her mother gone. Twenty years later Marnie is seeking answers, but her return looks set to tear open old wounds for many of the locals.

In a sea-cave on Lovatt Island, just off the west coast of Scotland, a skeleton is found shackled to the rocks. Detective Inspector Marjory Fleming, called in to investigate, anticipates a straightforward case belonging firmly in the past. But when a modern watch is discovered on the skeleton's wrist, it seems the crime may be far closer to home.