Illustrates the devastating impact of crime on the lives of ordinary people. This work features crimes ranging from fraud and house break-in to domestic abuse, rape and murder, and includes stories that focus on the victims of crime rather than the perpetrators and the investigators.

Using a tanning salon as a front, Edinburgh-based Carlos Morales runs an operation that arranges contract killings. Slight snag: his hit man's in jail and won't be out for a while. So when an anonymous - and very generous - paymant arrives on account, Carlos decides to take the job on himself. He's a pro. It can't be that hard. But once the 'mark' is revealed, Carlos is forced to re-think his ...

How much blood would you spill to avenge those you love? What if you're a blithe haemophobic psychopathic ex-con from Edinburgh? Andy Park thinks he's discovered a way to make a care worker pay for his ill-treatment of Park's brain-damaged wife, Liz. But Park isn't prepared for the fall-out.

Young prison officer Nicholas Glass is finding the stresses of the job increasingly hard to handle. Bullied and abused by inmates and colleagues alike, every day is getting longer than the one before. When a group of cons use outside help to threaten his wife and daughter, Glass agrees to help them out with a 'favour'.

A time-served hard man, Pearce is invited by the Baxter family to protect their pregnant daughter from Wallace, her husband, a man with a penchant for killing family pets. Having found out that the baby's not his, Wallace has sworn vengeance. Pearce declines the job. But when Wallace kills Pearce's dog, he goes too far.

Robin Greaves is an armed robber whose professionalism is put to the test when he discovers his wife has been sleeping with a fellow gang member. Greaves plans the ultimate revenge, but things go from bad to worse when the gang bungles a post office robbery. Suddenly they are stalked by the police, sleazy private eyes and a cold-blooded killer.

Andy Park passes out at the sight of blood, but he thinks he's discovered a way to make his family's enemies pay. He isn't prepared for the fall-out, though. Before long, his teenage son is in mortal danger, and his daughter and her fiance are knee-deep in corpses.

Pearce's ex needs to pay back twenty grand by midnight - or she's dead. Unless Pearce can stop the kill clock... A fast and furious underworld thriller by a master of the Scottish noir. Expertly edited for adults with a reading age of 8+, this new series is unique.

His teenage daughter is found dead, an apparent suicide. Then the police arrest him for murder. But, for once, Joe is innocent. With help from Scotland's hardest men - and one woman - he sets out to discover who has framed him and to deliver his own brutal brand of justice.

Pearce is still recovering from the loss of his mother in a stabbing incident in a post office robbery. He's invited by the dysfunctional Baxter family to protect their pregnant 16-year-old daughter from her 26-year-old husband, a man with a penchant for killing family pets. Having found out that the baby's not his, Wallace has sworn vengeance.

When people in Edinburgh need to borrow money, they go to Cooper. When they don't pay it back, they get a visit from Joe Hope. But now, Joe's got troubles of his own. His teenage daughter's been found dead, an apparent suicide. Then the police arrest him for murder. This is an urban crime fiction set in an edgy Edinburgh.

Robin Greaves is an armed robber whose professionalism is put to the test when he discovers his wife has been sleeping with a fellow gang-member. Robin plans the ultimate revenge, but things go from bad to worse when the gang bungles a post office robbery, leaving carnage in their wake.