"Some rules are meant to be broken. Some secrets are meant to stay buried.
On a military barracks on the outskirts of Glasgow, the body of a vulnerable young soldier is found following a routine training exercise. The upper brass is quick to rule it a tragic accident.
But DCI John Lomond is called in after a tip-off suggests foul play.
Forced to work alongside a hostile military police, Lomond and his Major Investigations Team find themselves obstructed from all sides.
Stripped of his usual authority, Lomond must navigate an unfamiliar chain of command, and a culture of silence and secrets.
To find the killer, Lomond has only once choice – convince someone on the inside to do the unthinkable: break ranks.
But in a place where loyalty is law, telling the truth might be the one thing that gets you killed."
"Meet Detective Constable Mairead Maclean. A fresh force in crime fiction
Inexperienced but driven, brilliant yet scarred, Mairead brings the grit of Lisbeth Salander and the resolve of Clarice Starling to a chilling new case. The Long Isle begins with a body on a remote beach in the Hebrides and spirals into a web of secrets in a community that guards its own. Forced to return to the islands she once fled, Mairead must face a killer and the past she thought she’d outrun.
This evocative new series brings the haunting beauty and hidden tensions of the Hebrides vividly to life"
"To catch a traitor, he must become a fugitive...
For years, a police mole known only as the Ferryman has operated deep within Police Scotland, feeding secrets to Glasgow’s most brutal crime boss, Frank Gormley.
Now, DCI Lomond is closing in on their identity.
But when a gangland shooting at a Govan supermarket leaves innocent civilians dead, the aftermath isn’t just a tragedy. It’s an intricate setup to frame someone as the Ferryman.
And all the evidence points to one man: John Lomond.
With the real Ferryman orchestrating the investigation, Lomond has no choice but to go on the run. Hunted by his own team, Lomond must conduct his own rogue investigation to expose the traitor’s identity once and for all.
Lomond is outside the law, out of allies, and out of time.
The Ferryman is calling the shots. And the next one might take Lomond down for good.
From the bestselling author of The Bonnie Dead, Andrew Raymond captures the voices of his beloved home city, and takes you into its hidden depths.
If you like writers like JD Kirk, Ian Rankin, and Val McDermid, this addictive thriller will have you gripped until its breathtaking final pages."
"Some murders leave behind more than just a body...
Still mourning the devastating loss of a close colleague, DCI Lomond and his team are called in to investigate a murder on the set of a popular Scottish detective TV show.
But the victim isn’t a star actor. It’s the show’s official police advisor – legendary Serious Crime Squad detective Jack Beattie.
Beloved by all who worked with him, the crime appears to be without motive or suspects.
Until Lomond digs into Beattie’s seemingly unblemished career, and uncovers shocking secrets involving Lomond’s superiors.
With a brash new addition to his Major Investigations Team, and the press breathing down his neck, Lomond must risk his entire future – both personal and professional – to bring a brutal killer to justice.
If you like writers like JD Kirk, Ian Rankin, and Stuart MacBride, this addictive thriller will have you gripped long into the night, and a shocking final twist will leave you breathless."
"Some cases should never be reopened…
When the remains of a young woman are found at the construction site of the new Govan-Partick Bridge, it appears to close a twenty-year-old cold case from DCI John Lomond’s earliest days as a detective.
But a retired detective – Lomond’s former boss – has a controversial theory that cost him his career.
This was no isolated case.
And the truth involves dozens of other cold cases, and an extraordinary cover-up by some of the most powerful police and legal officials in the country.
With the body count rising, Lomond and his team face a race against time to unmask a sadistic killer who’s been hiding in plain sight for decades.
In his most raw and emotionally charged thriller so far, Andrew Raymond captures the voices of his beloved home city, and takes you into its hidden depths."
"They were MI6’s most lethal assassins. Killers who lived in the shadows. Until now...
MI6 operative Duncan Grant has been officially missing in action for the last six months. Going on deep-cover to hunt down those responsible for the death of a close ally.
Half a world away, enjoying sedate retirement under new identities, former Albion agents are being murdered.
And now there’s only one left.
Given an ultimatum to save the last Albion or face expulsion from the agency he’s sacrificed so much for, Grant has no choice but to pursue both missions at the same time.
Unbeknownst to him, Grant’s relentless pursuit of revenge is about to reveal devastating secrets within the British establishment.
And they are determined to see Duncan Grant dead."
"Synchronised assassinations around the world have brought the global intelligence community to its knees. And it’s just the beginning...
Caught in the crossfire is MI6 covert operative Duncan Grant, who knows more about the mastermind behind the attack than anyone else.
Grant must destroy an international network of disavowed operatives and assassins, led by a charismatic and ruthless arms dealer who has a plan to bring chaos and destruction to millions.
Now it’s not just the intelligence agencies that are at stake – it’s entire nations.
With the clock ticking down, Grant joins forces with a mysterious deep-cover operative – unaware that he may be walking into a deadly trap.
From the acclaimed author of Kill Day and the Novak and Mitchell political thriller series, Dead Flags is the second in a series of action-packed thrillers for fans of Lee Child, David Baldacci, and Mark Dawson."
"THE FINAL NOVAK & MITCHELL THRILLER
Someone’s making a killing.
When the anti-corruption unit of the UK’s intelligence agencies is attacked by gunmen, its director Rebecca Fox turns to the only people she can trust her life with: fearless journalists from The Republic, Tom Novak and Stella Mitchell.
But their pursuit of the truth is about to thrust them into an alliance with a disgraced former colleague of Novak’s, who believes the attack is somehow connected to a conspiracy that began years earlier with the death of Novak’s father.
Don’t miss the final thriller of the explosive series, with globe-trotting action and devastating twists right up to the end."
"Every assassin has a first time…
On the backstreets of Lyon, France, an MI6 surveillance team are gunned down in a cold-blooded ambush. Thrust into the hunt for the assassin is the sole survivor – rookie covert operative Duncan Grant.
His feats in training are already the stuff of legend. His tough, solitary existence on Scotland’s Isle of Skye forging a man willing to kill to protect the innocent and save lives.
But no training can prepare Grant for the devastating consequences his first kill will unleash.
As he follows a bloody trail of clues around the globe, he discovers that his own agency is selling him out.
Now Grant is about to find himself in the middle of an international conspiracy involving a corrupt Interpol detective, a Saudi prince, and the highest levels of government.
But they’ve underestimated the wrong man.
And Grant's about to prove to them that the second kill is far easier than the first."
"The past can be a killer.
When the dismembered body of a notorious banker washes up on the beach at Luss, DCI John Lomond finds a sinister message carved into the dead man’s forehead.
And the same message has just been found on a tortured businessman in Gullane on the east coast.
With a twisted vigilante on the loose, and a brewing scandal threatening to pull his Major Investigations Team apart, they and Lomond must join forces with a team from Edinburgh – led by Lomond’s ex.
But like the killer they're hunting, she's not ready to leave the past behind.
Now, as the body count rises, Lomond’s past hasn’t just come back to haunt him. It could be the death of him.
Shot through with dark Glaswegian humour and thrilling twists, Andrew Raymond captures the voices of his beloved home city, taking you into its hidden depths, and the iconic hills and glens surrounding the nearby bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.
If you like writers like JD Kirk, Ian Rankin, David J. Gatward, Val McDermid, Mark Billingham, and Stuart MacBride, this addictive thriller will have you gripped until its explosive, gut-wrenching climax."
"A gathering of seven bestselling crime writers at a Scottish Highlands book festival turns deadly in a wickedly dark thriller that pays homage to Agatha Christie’s classic murder mysteries, from the bestselling author of The Bonnie Dead.
When legendary crime novelist William MacRae is found dead in suspicious circumstances at his Glasgow home, Police Scotland’s premier investigator DCI John Lomond is put on the case.
After discovering a list of seven bestselling authors – all old friends of MacRae’s – Lomond and his team head north to the Ullapool Book Festival, where the seven are gathering to remember their fallen friend.
But a vicious storm is closing in. And not everyone, it seems, has fond memories of MacRae. Or each other.
Cut off from the outside world at a remote country home, it doesn’t take long for the whisky to flow, old resentments to reignite…and another dead body to appear.
Over the course of one weekend, Lomond must sift through a web of red herrings, secrets, and lies.
One of them is a killer. But can Lomond unmask them before it’s too late?"
"A stolen child. A killer stalking the streets of Glasgow. A troubled detective running out of time.
Five years ago, DCI John Lomond led the search for notorious Glasgow child-killer ‘The Sandman’, until personal tragedy forced him off the case.
In Lomond’s absence, the killer was never found.
Now, with nothing but work left in his life, Lomond remains obsessed with the case – despite the nightmares it brings.
When a child is abducted in similar Sandman fashion from an affluent Glasgow suburb, Lomond is brought in to find them before it’s too late.
But the only forensic evidence belongs to a little girl who was abducted and murdered twenty years ago.
Could the Sandman’s identity lie buried in the coldest of cold cases? Or is a new killer about to claim their first victim?
The Bonnie Dead is the explosive debut Scottish crime thriller from Andrew Raymond – author of Amazon number one political thriller Official Secrets, which has now sold over 100,000 copies.
Shot through with dark Glaswegian humour and thrilling twists, he captures the voices of his beloved home city, taking you into its hidden depths, and the iconic hills and glens of nearby Loch Lomond and Arran.
If you like writers like JD Kirk, Ian Rankin, and Stuart MacBride, this addictive thriller will have you gripped until its haunting, heart-in-the-mouth climax."
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