Пекин — город, за внешне респектабельным фасадом которого скрыто множество тайн. И детективу «убойного» отдела Ли Яню хорошо известны самые темные стороны жизни столичных улиц…Однако еще никогда ему не приходилось сталкиваться с таким трудным и необычным делом…Три трупа — за одну ночь.Два убийства — и одно самосожжение.На первый взгляд между жертвами вообще нет связи. Но Ли Янь и его коллега из США, патологоанатом Маргарет Кэмпбелл, приходят к неожиданному выводу: они имеют дело с тремя убийствами, тесно связанными между собой. И ключом к разгадке может стать имя сгоревшего «самоубийцы», обнаруженного в парке…Кто он? Почему с ним расправились столь необычным способом?Ли и Маргарет шаг за шагом приближаются к разгадке.Но за каждым их шагом следит таинственный убийца, готовясь нанести следующий удар…

A SILENT VOW

Spain, 2020. When ex-pat fugitive Jack Cleland watches his girlfriend die, gunned down in a pursuit involving officer Cristina Sanchez Pradell, he promises to exact his revenge by destroying the policewoman.

A SILENT LIFE

Cristina’s aunt Ana has been deaf-blind for the entirety of her adult life: the victim of a rare condition named Usher Syndrome. Ana is the centre of Cristina’s world — and of Cleland’s cruel plan.

A SILENT DEATH

John Mackenzie — an ingenious yet irascible Glaswegian investigator — is seconded to aid the Spanish authorities in their manhunt. He alone can silence Cleland before the fugitive has the last, bloody, word.

Hidden Faces is a remarkable novel, a thriller of great sensitivity by an exciting new writer.

Scottish reporter Colin Bannerman is sent to Brussels to write a series of articles about the Common Market. His editor asks him to stay at the home of a newspaper colleague for the duration of his visit. Bannerman dislikes the man, Slater, intensely but unexpectedly forms an attachment to Tania, Slater’s young, autistic daughter.

Shortly after Bannerman’s arrival, Slater and a junior minister at the EEC, Robert Gryffe, are assassinated. Tania accidentally witnesses the crime and the murderer is given instructions to find and kill her. Meanwhile the local police are instructed to cover-up the double murder for political reasons. But Bannerman is determined to find out and reveal the truth.

Husband and wife Niamh and Ruaridh Macfarlane co-own Ranish Tweed, a company that weaves its own special variety of Harris cloth. When Niamh learns of Ruaridh’s affair with the Russian designer Irina Vetriv and witnesses the pair be blown up by a car bomb in Paris, her life is left in ruins.

She returns to the Isle of Lewis with her husband’s remains and finds herself the prime suspect in her murder case. A French detective is sent to the Hebrides to look into her past and soon Niamh and the detective are working together to discover the truth.

A CITY IN QUARANTINE

London, the epicenter of a global pandemic, is a city in lockdown. Violence and civil disorder simmer. Martial law has been imposed. No-one is safe from the deadly virus that has already claimed thousands of victims. Health and emergency services are overwhelmed.

A MURDERED CHILD

At a building site for a temporary hospital, construction workers find a bag containing the rendered bones of a murdered child. A remorseless killer has been unleashed on the city; his mission is to take all measures necessary to prevent the bones from being identified.

A POWERFUL CONSPIRACY

D.I. Jack MacNeil, counting down the hours on his final day with the Met, is sent to investigate. His career is in ruins, his marriage over and his own family touched by the virus. Sinister forces are tracking his every move, prepared to kill again to conceal the truth. Which will stop him first — the virus or the killers?

Innocence is a force more potent, sometimes, than evil. For it has no concept of its own power to destroy. The Noble Path is the story of two people who become its victims.

Jack Elliot is a man without a soul. A discredited British Army officer, he kills now for money. For him life is cheap — even his own. Only death comes expensive. And when Ang Yuon, a wealthy Cambodian refugee, asks him to cross from Thailand to rescue his wife and children from the Khmer Rouge, Elliot demands an extravagant fee. For this time he expects, perhaps hopes, to die. But even Elliot is unprepared for the scale of suffering inflicted on an innocent Cambodian people, or for the curse it brings him — a reason to live.

Lisa is Elliot’s teenage daughter, stepping into the unknown in search of the father she has never met. Following him as far as Bangkok, she falls foul of his ruthless Thai associates. In her innocence she sees the obsequious Tuk. Than as no more than a concerned friend of her father, and the beautiful, bewitching Grace as his talented protégé. She does not realise that Tuk’s business interests encompass girls as well as guns, and that Grace is a cunning procuress who can find any number of buyers for an innocent English girl...

In the fetid jungles of Cambodia or on the storm-tossed South China Sea, in the opulent mansions of Bangkok or in its seamy back streets, Elliot and Lisa tread the hard path of enlightenment, and head inexorably towards a final, unexpected and devastating encounter.