Detective Sergeant Logan McRae isn't exactly thrilled to be part of the team helping settle parolled convict Martin Knox into his new Aberdeen home, or being stuck with DSI Danby from Northumbria Police who put Knox behind bars. And things are about to go very, very wrong. Three heavies from Newcastle want a 'quiet word' with DSI Danby about a missing mob accountant. And Martin Knox's dark past isn't done with him yet!

Investigating a murdered body that may be tied to a missing persons case, Sergeant Logan McRae finds his job challenged by Aberdeen gang activity, his responsibility-eschewing former boss, and a new superintendent determined to make his life miserable.

Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery stories. The first body is chained to a stake: strangled, and stabbed, with a burning tyre around its neck. But is this a gangland execution or something much darker? Someone's leaving little knots of bones outside Detective Inspector Logan McRae's house, but he's got more pressing things to worry about. Rival drug gangs are fighting over product and territory; two teenage lovers are missing; someone's crippling...

Alison and Jenny McGregor -- Aberdeen's own mother-daughter singing sensation -- are through to the semi-finals of TV smash-hit Britain's Next Big Star. But their reality-TV dream turns into a real-life nightmare when a ransom demand appears in all the papers, on TV, and the internet, telling the nation to dig deep if they want to keep them alive. Time is running out -- and DS Logan McRae and his colleagues have nothing to go on.

Detective Sgt. Logan McRae, just back on the job in Aberdeen, Scotland, after recuperating from a knife wound received from a murder suspect, becomes caught up in the investigation of a serial killer who is targeting some of the youngest members of the community, and to make things even more difficult, someone inside the department is leaking confidential information to the press.