Off-mint.

Off-mint.

Lovers and business partners in a small tweed company on Harris, Niamh and Ruairidh are in Paris promoting their fabrics when Ruairidh is killed in a car bomb explosion. Back on Harris, Niamh begins to worry that it was a personal rather than a terrorist attack.

Macleod travels to a crime scene on Île de Groix off the Brittany coast and despite hostility from the island community, he tries to honour a promise he made to a dead man 20 years previously – to investigate his murder.

Peter May’s second China thriller finds the American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell once more helping Detective Li Yan, this time investigating a series of four horrific ritual executions in Beijing, with an American diplomat among the victims.

Having wagered that old murder cases could be solved using modern science, forensics expert Enzo Macleod must tackle the ‘cold’ case of Jacques Gaillard – but finds himself in danger when the investigation leads deep into the catacombs below Paris.

In southern France, the corpse of America’s most celebrated wine critic, Gil Petty, is found pickled in wine and strung up in a vineyard. For Macleod, the key to this terrible crime lies in decoding Petty’s enigmatic reviews.

In this many-layered mystery, George Gunn investigates a murder at a remote lighthouse in the north Atlantic; mystery surrounds the suicide of a scientist two years previously; and a man is washed ashore on Harris with no memory, just a map of the island and Coffin Road.

In 1989, Lucie Martin was killed and her body dumped in a lake in western France. When her bones are exposed by drought 14 years later, forensics expert Enzo Macleod re-opens a stone-cold, seemingly unsolvable case.

Macleod’s fifth ‘cold’ case dates back seven years, when France’s top chef summoned the culinary press to his remote restaurant to make an announcement. The critics speculated that he was losing a Michelin star, instead they found him murdered.

The hunter becomes the hunted as perpetrators of an old murder set out to destroy Enzo Macleod and his family; but Macleod, diagnosed with leukaemia, is running out of time to solve the ‘cold’ case before the killers strike

DI Nick Lowry is on the case of a corpse found on the railway lines near a cottage where another man has apparently committed suicide: this is the second in the series of books set in and around Colchester in the early 1980s.

In 1989, Lucie Martin was killed and her body dumped in a lake in western France. When her bones are exposed by drought 14 years later, forensics expert Enzo Macleod re-opens a stone-cold, seemingly unsolvable case. Slightly off-mint.

Colchester, January 1983. Approaching 40, DI Nick Lowry has given up smoking, which hasn’t helped relations with his colleagues. But an illegal shipment is approaching the Essex shoreline: 100 kilograms of powder bound to raise tensions in the historic town.