Scottish Police Procedurals

Eine junge Frau ist mit ihrem Auto auf einer Bergstraße in den Schottischen Highlands unterwegs, als plötzlich ein kleines Mädchen wie aus dem Nichts vor ihr auftaucht. Sie weicht aus und kommt von der Straße ab. Als sie wieder zu sich kommt, befindet sie sich in einem dunklen, feuchten Raum … Dann verschwindet ein Tourist spurlos. Auch er hat kurz vor seinem Verschwinden ein kleines Mädchen gesehen.

When detectives John Stone and Carmen Dehan who run the Cold Cases Department at the 43rd Precinct in the Bronx choose their honeymoon together, there are three things they are very clear on: there must be good steak and whisky, it must be remote, and for two blissful weeks they must forget about work, about cold cases and about murder.

A wicked Scottish winter has just begun when pioneering female physician Sophia Jex-Blake calls on Detective Inspector Ian Hamilton to investigate the suspicious death of one of her patients - a railroad lineman who she believes succumbed to the horrific effects of arsenic poisoning. The most provocative aspect of the case doesn’t escape Hamilton: the married victim’s numerous sexual transgressions. Now, for the first time since the unexplained fire that killed his parents, Hamilton enters the Royal Infirmary to gain the insights of brilliant medical student Arthur Conan Doyle.

A woman is found dead, brutally murdered, her death made to look like an accident. DCI Sean Bracken is called in and discovers that the young woman has a very powerful father. Was somebody trying to get back at him, or has the woman's secrets finally caught up with her? Bracken also has to deal with the mysterious arson attack on his boss' house. And a name from the past resurfaces, a name that Bracken thought was dead and buried.