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In her first case, DS Alice Rice is part of the team investigating murders, not in Edinburgh’s underworld, but among the city’s professional elite – starting with Dr Elizabeth Clarke, a consultant obstetrician.

On a freezing winter’s night a body is discovered on Beamer’s Rock in the Forth. No sooner has DS Rice identified the dead woman than a second corpse is found in Belhaven Bay and Alice must find a killer before another victim is washed ashore.

Father Vincent Ross’s tranquil, celibate life in a small Scottish town is turned upside down when a man is found murdered in the bishop’s house. With his ear for gossip and keen intelligence, Ross turns detective to hunt the killer, but puts himself in danger.

In the bleakest of midwinters, a prostitute’s body is found lying in undergrowth in Seafield Cemetery; but one dead woman doesn’t stop the others plying their trade on the streets of Leith, where DS Rice must join them as she hunts a serial killer.