Private investigator Patrick de Courvoisier unearths a shocking wartime secret in this stylish Cannes-based mystery series.Brother Robert from the abbey on St Honorat, a picturesque island off the French coast, has requested Patrick de Courvoisier's help in locating a valuable painting which has disappeared from the monastery's vaults.At the same time, an old enemy from Patrick's past has arrived in Cannes in search of a different stolen painting. As it becomes increasingly clear that the two investigations are linked, Patrick's enquiries lead him to uncover a shocking wartime secret: a secret the British Royal family would prefer to keep hidden...

When an unidentified teenage boy is found strangled and mutilated in a Glasgow flat, forensic expert Dr Rhona MacLeod is called to the scene only to find the victim bears an uncanny resemblance to her. Could he be the son she gave up for adoption seventeen years before?

Introducing glamorous private investigator Patrick de Courvoisier in this stylish new mystery series.Content to leave his controversial past behind him and enjoy a more relaxed, hedonistic lifestyle on a converted houseboat in the glamorous French resort of Cannes, enigmatic Englishman Patrick de Courvoisier is known as 'Le Limier' or 'Fixer'. People come to him with their problems – and he fixes them.However, when Camille Ager asks Patrick to find her sister, Angele Valette, star of the new movie The Black Pearl, Patrick's laidback lifestyle is dealt a terminal blow. Last seen at the film's lavish launch party on board the luxurious black yacht owned by Russian oligarch Vasily Chapayev, the funds behind the movie and owner of the famous black pearl, Angele seems to have vanished into thin air – and so has the pearl.As Patrick questions all those involved with the movie, he discovers that this is a case where nothing is as it seems. And when a...

Murder, mutilation and ritual sacrifice in the breakout book from Lin Anderson.

The gripping new forensic thriller from Lin Anderson, author of DARK FLIGHT.

A hen night in Glasgow leaves the bride–to-be dead on a toilet floor, her body twisted, her face stretched in a macabre grin. With no suspect and no motive the police hit a brick wall. But the murderer has left a hidden trail of forensic evidence for Dr Rhona MacLeod to find. A trail that leads to a world of exploitation and sexual obsession. "The green baize walls and heavily carpeted hallway smothered all sound. She passed four doors and stood outside number five, waiting for the double vodka to swim through her blood stream. There were four of them. Spiked hair, designer stubble, muscled bodies under patterned short-sleeved shirts. A stag night maybe? Or just guys who liked working out on girls like her.