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Caro Ramsay

    Caro Ramsay a développé dès son plus jeune âge un vif intérêt pour la fiction policière, une passion qui l'a conduite à écrire son premier roman. Son écriture explore les aspects les plus sombres de la psychologie humaine et les dilemmes moraux. Les histoires de Ramsay se caractérisent par leur profonde perspicacité dans les motivations des personnages et leurs intrigues captivantes qui tiennent les lecteurs en haleine. Elle tisse magistralement des mystères complexes avec un commentaire incisif sur la condition humaine.

    The Sideman
    The Silent Conversation
    Dark Water
    The Red, Red Snow
    On an Outgoing Tide
    Out of the Dark
    • Out of the Dark

      • 256pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      A young woman is missing, but has she run away - or been captured? A dying cop asks DCI Christine Caplan to fulfil her last wish: to investigate a cold case that's still preying on her mind. The naked body of a young man that was found in a lonely wood, dismissed as a down and out by her superiors. Caplan connects the case to other victims left to die in the bleak Scottish forests, injured and unable to escape. As the scent grows stronger, the cold cases seem suddenly dangerously hot. In this thrilling hunt for the missing girl, Caplan must trace where love and control get out of hand, and question where power lies in any relationship. Meanwhile, the dark nights of Scotland conceal a terrifying game of cat and mouse . . . This gripping Scottish police procedural meets twisted psychological thriller, featuring a complex and fascinating female protagonist, is a perfect choice for fans of tartan noir and authors Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and William McIlvanney.

      Out of the Dark
      4,3
    • On an Outgoing Tide

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      The body of a young woman is found drifting lifelessly on the outgoing tide. Before detectives Anderson and Costello can make headway, they are pulled off the case to investigate the murder of a pensioner in his own home - and they uncover a number of secrets in the dead man's past. Secrets that link to another murder more than forty years before.

      On an Outgoing Tide
      4,0
    • Two bodies are discovered at a cottage in a remote highland glen: one in the kitchen; the other sprawled outside in the snow. The killer would appear to have arrived and left without leaving a trace, not even a footprint in the snow. As the snow piles higher, detectives Anderson and Costello put their wits to solving a seemingly impossible crime.

      The Red, Red Snow
      3,9
    • Dark Water

      • 480pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      In their third mystifying case, Glaswegian police duo Anderson and Costello must solve the murder of a criminal with a mutilated face

      Dark Water
      3,8
    • The Silent Conversation

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      It's been four years since four-year-old Johnny Clearwaterdisappeared without trace one afternoon. On the night a new TV documentaryseries revisiting the case is broadcast, detectives Anderson and Costello arecalled to investigate the murder of a female police officer, and a link isdiscovered between the dead woman and the missing young boy

      The Silent Conversation
      3,9
    • The Sideman

      • 352pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      DI Costello must break the rules if she is to catch a ruthless killer in the tenth Anderson and Costello thriller

      The Sideman
      3,8
    • The Night Hunter

      • 256pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      Evie McCulloch's sister Sophie has been missing for 57 days. She went out for a run - and never came home. Elvie's efforts to find out what happened to Sophie, and to the other local missing girls, will find her pitted against a terrifying enemy. Someone who has killed before, someone who will kill again. Someone they call The Night Hunter.

      The Night Hunter
      3,0
    • The Blood of Crows

      • 496pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      For DI Colin Anderson, there's no such simple thing as right and wrong.As his seemingly clear-cut conviction of paedophile Skelpie Fairbairn is declared unsafe, Anderson finds himself under investigation. Pressure on the DI mounts as an elusive criminal mastermind known as the Puppeteer seems to be the link in a series of alarming events: a gangster torched alive; a teenage boy tortured then dropped off a bridge; and the suicide of a cop working on a decades-old, unsolved child kidnapping.When a young girl dies in Anderson's arms after being left to drown, he is at his wits' end. With Fairbairn as his only lead, is he prepared to dance with the devil to solve her murder?

      The Blood of Crows
      3,8
    • The Devil Stone

      • 256pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      In the small Highland village of Cronchie, a wealthy family are found brutally murdered in a satanic ritual and their heirloom, 'the devil stone', is the only thing stolen. The key suspects are known satanists - case closed? But when DCI Christine Caplan is brought in to investigate, experience soon tells her that this is no open and shut case!

      The Devil Stone
      3,8
    • Two seven-year-old boys have been abducted from the streets of Glasgow. Both had already endured years of neglect and betrayal - but for Detective Inspector Colin Anderson the case is especially disturbing, because the boys look so much like his own son Peter...

      Singing to the Dead
      3,8