Books
Contemporary Scottish crime fiction set on the Aberdeenshire coast – murder investigations woven with landscape, folklore and community secrets, led by a detective you’ll want to follow for many books to come.
The DCI Surinder Taws Mysteries
Read them in any order – but this is the order Sindy lived them.
PREQUEL · FREE
The Returning Woman
Before Stonehaven, there was Glasgow – and a death everyone wanted filed as an accident. Free when you join the list.
BOOK 1
The Crimson Keep
A body beneath Dunnottar Castle. A red spiral carved into skin. A legend that never quite died.
BOOK 2
The Salt Wives
Some men are never brought to justice. Someone in Stonehaven has stopped waiting.
BOOK 3 · COMING NOVEMBER 2026
The Snow House
Christmas Eve. A family snowed in at Coldburn House. Two deaths before morning – and no road out.
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