Caro Ramsay, Author . Pegasus $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-933648-41-5
Scottish author Ramsay's atmospheric and melancholic novel is a solid but unremarkable debut. Deeply flawed Glaswegian police constable Alan McAlpine is obsessed with an unsolved case more than two decades old, involving an acid attack on a...
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Caro Ramsay. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8422-0
Elvie McCulloch, the caustic narrator of Ramsay’s harrowing fifth thriller featuring Det. Chief Insp. Colin Anderson and Det. Sgt. Winifred “Freddie” Costello (after 2012’s The Blood of Crows), must contend with the tensions within her dysfunctional
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Caro Ramsay. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8515-9
Two particularly brutal murders claim the attention of Det. Chief Insp. Colin Anderson in Ramsay’s unsettling sixth police thriller featuring the Scottish copper and Det. Insp. Winifred “Freddie” Costello (after 2014’s The Night Hunter). One victim,
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Caro Ramsay. Severn, $29.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8619-4
In the prologue of Ramsay’s dreary, rain-soaked seventh mystery featuring Det. Chief Insp. Colin Anderson and Det. Insp. Winifred “Freddie” Costello (after 2015’s Tears of Angels), Sue Melrose, who lives on Altmore Road in Altmore, Scotland, takes...
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Caro Ramsay. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8697-2
A horrific fire on Christmas Eve 1989 opens Ramsey’s overly eventful eighth mystery featuring Det. Chief Insp. Colin Anderson, Det. Insp. Freddie Costello, and their colleagues in Glasgow’s Partickhill Major Investigation Team (after 2016’s Rat Run).
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Caro Ramsay. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8760-3
Ramsey’s riveting ninth mystery featuring Det. Chief Insp. Colin Anderson and Det. Insp. Winifred “Freddie” Costello (after 2017’s Standing Still) finds their Glasgow investigative team broken up: Anderson has been assigned to the cold case unit,...
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Caro Ramsay. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8808-2
Ramsay’s intricate 10th police procedural featuring Glasgow-based Det. Insp. Winifred “Freddie” Costello and her colleague, Det. Chief Insp. Colin Anderson, picks up where its predecessor, The Suffering of Strangers, left off, with Costello still...
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Caro Ramsay. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9076-4
Set in Glasgow, Scotland, Ramsay’s engrossing 13th procedural featuring Det. Chief Insp. Colin Anderson and Det. Insp. Freddie Costello (after On an Outgoing Tide) effectively juggles multiple plotlines without straining credulity. Four years after...
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Caro Ramsay. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8892-1
Megan Melvick, the heroine of this terrific standalone from Ramsay (the Costello and Anderson series), returns home after three years away to her family’s country estate in Scotland, where Melissa, her older sister, is dying. Melissa’s last word,...
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Caro Ramsay. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8923-2
At the start of Ramsay’s gripping 11th Scottish police procedural featuring Det. Chief Insp. Colin Anderson and Det. Insp. Winifred “Freddie” Costello (after 2018’s The Sideman), Eric Callaghan, a father picking up an order for his family at a...
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Caro Ramsay. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9075-7
In Ramsay’s intricately plotted 12th mystery featuring Det. Chief Insp. Colin Anderson and Det. Insp. Winifred “Freddie” Costello (after 2020’s The Red, Red Snow), the two Glasgow detectives look into the death of 23-year-old Aasha Ariti, whose body
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Caro Ramsay. Severn, $29.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0974-0
Det. Constable Christine Caplan, the star of this solid series launch from Scottish author Ramsay (the Anderson and Costello series), is dispatched to Otterburn, a village outside Glasgow, to help solve the murder of five members of the wealthy...
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Caro Ramsay. Severn House, $31.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0676-3
Ramsay’s gripping second case for DCI Christine Caplan (after 2022’s The Devil Stone) finds the Glaswegian investigator finishing up her three-month assignment in the small Highland village of Cronchie. Well aware of the strains her absence has put...
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