Caro Ramsay ha sviluppato fin da giovane un acuto interesse per la narrativa poliziesca, una passione che l'ha portata a scrivere il suo romanzo d'esordio. La sua scrittura si addentra negli aspetti più oscuri della psicologia umana e negli interrogativi morali. Le storie di Ramsay sono caratterizzate da una profonda intuizione delle motivazioni dei personaggi e da trame avvincenti che tengono i lettori con il fiato sospeso. Intreccia magistralmente misteri intricati con un tagliente commento sulla condizione umana.
The body of a young woman is found drifting lifelessly on the outgoing tide. Before detectives Anderson and Costello can make headway, they are pulled off the case to investigate the murder of a pensioner in his own home - and they uncover a number of secrets in the dead man's past. Secrets that link to another murder more than forty years before.
Two bodies are discovered at a cottage in a remote highland glen: one in the kitchen; the other sprawled outside in the snow. The killer would appear to have arrived and left without leaving a trace, not even a footprint in the snow. As the snow piles higher, detectives Anderson and Costello put their wits to solving a seemingly impossible crime.
In their third mystifying case, Glaswegian police duo Anderson and Costello must solve the murder of a criminal with a mutilated face
It's been four years since four-year-old Johnny Clearwaterdisappeared without trace one afternoon. On the night a new TV documentaryseries revisiting the case is broadcast, detectives Anderson and Costello arecalled to investigate the murder of a female police officer, and a link isdiscovered between the dead woman and the missing young boy
DI Costello must break the rules if she is to catch a ruthless killer in the tenth Anderson and Costello thriller
Evie McCulloch's sister Sophie has been missing for 57 days. She went out for a run - and never came home. Elvie's efforts to find out what happened to Sophie, and to the other local missing girls, will find her pitted against a terrifying enemy. Someone who has killed before, someone who will kill again. Someone they call The Night Hunter.
For DI Colin Anderson, there's no such simple thing as right and wrong.As his seemingly clear-cut conviction of paedophile Skelpie Fairbairn is declared unsafe, Anderson finds himself under investigation. Pressure on the DI mounts as an elusive criminal mastermind known as the Puppeteer seems to be the link in a series of alarming events: a gangster torched alive; a teenage boy tortured then dropped off a bridge; and the suicide of a cop working on a decades-old, unsolved child kidnapping.When a young girl dies in Anderson's arms after being left to drown, he is at his wits' end. With Fairbairn as his only lead, is he prepared to dance with the devil to solve her murder?
Two seven-year-old boys have been abducted from the streets of Glasgow. Both had already endured years of neglect and betrayal - but for Detective Inspector Colin Anderson the case is especially disturbing, because the boys look so much like his own son Peter...
When a child abduction and sexual assault case overlap, Glaswegian police team Costello and Anderson team up to crack the cases
"In August 1992, a young mother and her two small sons were brutally murdered in the woods behind their home. The victims' neighbour Andrew Gyle was convicted of the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment. Now, twenty-three years later, a macabre discovery throws new light on the case. Could there have been a shocking miscarriage of justice?"--Publisher