A collection of short stories that range from hard-boiled police procedural to historical whodunit and from the wildly comic to the spookily supernatural.

A brutal and mysterious kidnap of an innocent old man begins this huge new break-out novel from one of crime writing's rising stars...

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.

When Paddy Meehan, an aspiring journalist, is called to a domestic dispute at a house, it seems like just another police call. The blonde bleeding from a head injury doesn't want any help; and the man at front door assures Paddy that everything's fine, and slips her a 50 note to keep the story out of the paper. By next morning the woman's dead.

Maureen, a mental breakdown survivor, is about to end her affair with a married man when she discovers his body in her living room, his throat slit. Suspected of murder, Maureen must act fast - before the real killer comes after her.

In Glasgow, when a toddler goes missing, the police are led to the doors of two young boys. Although everyone at the Scottish Daily News believes the boys acted on their own, Paddy, who dreams of becoming an investigative journalist, believes there may be more to it, and begins to ask awkward questions, and finds herself dangerously alone.

Travelling down from Glasgow to London to investigate the murder of one of the former patients at the Glasgow Women's Shelter, Maureen O'Donnell quickly finds herself out of her depth and in danger of suffering a similar fate.

Lachlan Harriot is in a state of shock. His wife Susie has been convicted of the murder of serial killer Andrew Gow, a prisoner in her care. But as he searches through the documents in her study to clear her name, he becomes convinced there was something going on between the pair.

Maureen, ex-psychiatric patient, is facing her darkest episode. Her abuser has returned to Galsgow, she owes more than she earns in back-taxes, and she is witness to the trial of the psychologist who murdered her boyfriend. On top of that she's become involved in someone else's family feud.

Paddy Meehan is home alone when there's a knock at the door. It's the police and they have bad news. Former boyfriend Terry Patterson's naked body has been found in a ditch. Paddy is devastated: Terry was her first lover; the sort of journalist she's always aspired to be. But why have the police come to her?

Set in Glasgow, in the year 1990, Paddy Meehan is home alone when there's a knock at the door. It's the police and they have bad news. Former boyfriend Terry Patterson's naked body has been found in a ditch. He's been tortured, hooded, then shot through the head: all hallmarks of an IRA assassination.

John Constantine's trip to Scotland has ended in disaster, as Steve Evans' well-intentioned Empathy Engine has caused mass suicides and the quarantine of Glasgow. Now John, Evans, Angie, Chas and a motley crew of survivors must seek the cause of the horror, while desperately trying to stave off its terrible effects.

Movie star and comic book icon, John Constantine, the chain-smoking, hard-drinking man of the occult is back. When Constantine tries to help out a man cursed with the ability to feel the same things as everyone around him, he is led on a journey to a remote Scottish island, where an ancient power waits for him - as does a vengeful fellow magician.

When Paddy Meehan, Glasgow's youngest aspiring journalist, is called to a domestic dispute at a house in a wealthy suburb in the north of the city, it seems like just another police call. The blonde bleeding from a head injury in the shadows doesn't want any help; and the well dressed man at the front door assures Paddy that everything's fine.