Ed James Books in Order

A new Police Scotland investigation pulls Scott Cullen and Craig Hunter into a case that begins with a single unexplained death and widens into something far larger. As lines of loyalty and command fray, both men must decide whom they can trust inside and outside the force.

An unsolved killing from 2000 at Scott’s View draws Marshall into a cold case soaked in nostalgia and unfinished business. As he digs into a family’s history of emigration and those who chose to stay behind, he discovers how far people will go to avoid paying for old sins.

Acting DCI Rob Marshall returns to the Borders just as a murdered seventeen-year-old is found near Hawick, sending shockwaves through the town. With his Major Investigation Team under threat of cuts, Marshall chases links to an older case and learns that some long-held fears are justified.

During the Edinburgh Festival, Marshall takes a call that leads him to Duddingston Loch, where he watches a woman drown. At the same moment in London, DI Sam Winter answers an identical call and witnesses a man burn, forcing both detectives to chase a killer orchestrating deaths in two cities.

Twelve years after escaping a serial killer, Holly Fenwick films a documentary in Eyemouth and thinks she sees her attacker again. When a woman disappears from the scene, Rob Marshall, now at a Behavioural Sciences Unit, returns to his old London patch to find out whether Holly’s nightmare has restarted.

A young woman from Peebles is found dead in a disused railway tunnel, miles from help and hidden in the dark. Marshall is brought in to consult and, paired with his own replacement on the local team, must determine whether he is seeing the start of a series or just one terrible crime.

Working back in uniform on a St Andrew’s Day back shift, Sergeant Rakesh Siyal juggles a missing teenager, a pub fight ready to explode and a domestic call that feels dangerously wrong. As the city edges toward chaos, he must trust his instincts to stop a bad night turning deadly.

Marshall is called to a high-security prison where the Shadow Man, a serial killer he profiled years ago, offers to reveal a burial site. At a lonely wood on the Tweed, the team uncover not one old grave but three fresh corpses, proving a new murderer is using the past as cover.

DI Rob Marshall, once a criminal profiler in London, is still haunted by the Chameleon, a serial killer he never managed to catch. When the killer’s body is discovered and a final victim remains missing, Marshall must return to his Borders home town to unpick the case that broke him.

Years after Chloe’s abduction, Fenchurch faces a case that echoes every fear he has ever had as a father. A fresh murder and new information about old enemies force him to confront the possibility that the answers he has chased for a decade may finally be within reach.

Kelso businessman and gang boss Gary Hislop is attacked outside his hardware shop, triggering a wave of violence across the Borders. As Marshall investigates, he suspects someone inside his own team is leaking to the criminals and must expose the traitor while keeping the case on track.

In the depths of a Borders winter, a man and woman are found frozen to death near a remote road, their wrists and ankles bound. With few leads and brutal weather, DI Rob Marshall must rely on instinct and local knowledge to work out whether the storm or a killer claimed them.

Now a DCI, Simon Fenchurch is drawn into a murder on the boundary between the City and East London, where every thread points toward a newly freed crime boss. As witnesses vanish and old enemies resurface, his hard-won family life comes under threat.

Struggling crime writer Mark Campbell’s student daughter vanishes in the Scottish Highlands, leaving her phone, a hotel bill and a message tied to his most controversial book. Forced to team up with his ex, Glasgow cop Olivia, he discovers dangerous secrets someone will kill to keep buried.

When Vicky Dodds answers a late-night call to a Dundee flat, she finds a man bludgeoned to death and a trail that leads straight into police misconduct. Working alongside Luke Shepherd from internal affairs, she must solve the murder while wondering if she is the real target.

Leaving a career as a human-rights lawyer, DS Rakesh Siyal joins Police Scotland determined to fix the system from within. On his first day, a simple job escorting a murder suspect from Galashiels to Glasgow goes disastrously wrong, forcing him to recover both the prisoner and his reputation.

In the aftermath of earlier investigations, Cullen and Bain are pushed together once more when a fresh Edinburgh case exposes the unfinished business between them. Old enemies, new victims and shifting loyalties force both men to decide how far they will go to get results.

A teenage boy is snatched from a Dundee street in daylight and later found drowned, a strange code scratched into his arm. DS Vicky Dodds hunts for the missing girl tied to the case, plunging into gangs, the dark web and her own troubled history to stop another killing.

Acting DC Scott Cullen and DC Craig Hunter set out to find a witness who has skipped a court appearance and instead stumble over two homeless women dead from an apparent overdose. As they pull at loose threads, they uncover a criminal network and a rival team of detectives with their own agenda.

Marissa wakes to a silent house and a cracked mirror bearing the words “Never forget,” her daughter Olivia gone without her phone or clothes. As Max Carter’s FBI team digs into the girl’s hidden life, they uncover secrets that connect her disappearance to a much older crime.

Probationary PC Chloe Fenchurch discovers a dry but drowned body at London’s Tower Hill Memorial, a man she knows from her grandfather’s past. As Simon Fenchurch investigates linked deaths among former officers, buried scandals and a missing head teacher drag father and daughter into danger.

When a man is found dead in an Edinburgh supermarket, Cullen’s team peel back layers of corporate secrecy, staff grudges and an earlier scandal the company is desperate to forget. As Bain pursues his own angles, Cullen has to solve the case without letting internal rivalries derail the truth.

Senator Christopher Holliday’s children vanish along with their mother’s car, leaving her beaten and drugged on the doorstep with a note warning her not to call police. Max Carter’s FBI child-abduction team races to find the kids, even as the senator’s behaviour makes him Carter’s prime suspect.

Six weeks after vanishing, Sarah Langton is found delirious and starving, with no memory of where she has been. When another missing person reappears equally broken, DS Corcoran and criminal psychiatrist Dr Marie Palmer realise they are chasing a predator who drives captives to madness before releasing them back into the world.

A reckless decision leaves Brian Bain stranded across the Atlantic recording a true-crime podcast just as Edinburgh is plunged into crisis. Acting DI Scott Cullen must manage a city on edge and confront old ghosts while realising Bain may still be pulling strings from afar.

A violent crime on the fringes of Edinburgh drags Cullen and Bain into a tangle of organised gangs, hidden histories and long-nursed grudges. As the body count rises, Cullen struggles to keep control of his team and his volatile former boss while closing in on a ruthless killer.

In a gated community outside Seattle, a baby disappears from a mansion owned by two wealthy brothers. As Max Carter digs into the Bartletts’ tangled finances and rivalries, he uncovers lies that threaten both the missing child and his own already strained life away from the job.

When a body is found in a golf-course bunker near Carnoustie, DS Vicky Dodds is dragged back to her home town and the serial killer her ex-cop father once failed to catch. As more deaths follow, Vicky is torn between loyalty to family and the need to expose an old obsession.

A brutal murder on Fenchurch’s East London patch exposes a turf war where no one is innocent and everyone has something to hide. Balancing the investigation with a fragile family life, he must decide how much he is prepared to risk to bring one particularly vicious offender down.

Acting DI Scott Cullen is sent to Glasgow when a body is found in an industrial bin, drenched in bleach and dressed only in an adult nappy. Working on Bain’s old patch and under intense media pressure, Cullen must untangle a pattern of similar attacks before the killer strikes again.

After a bungled operation, DC Craig Hunter is offered a fresh start on a high-profile case, then receives a desperate message from his missing brother. Travelling to the Black Isle in the Scottish Highlands, he must untangle family secrets and online fame to learn what really happened.

A young woman is crushed between a London bus and a white van in what looks like a tragic accident. DI Simon Fenchurch soon realises she was targeted, and that new gangs and new predators are battling for control of his patch, leaving vulnerable people in their wake.

When a teacher notorious for an affair with a pupil is found dead in a London hotel, suspected of being poisoned, Fenchurch and his team must sift scandal from fact. The deeper they probe into the victim’s past, the more people they find who might want her permanently silenced.

A high-flying university student is found strangled in her flat, apparently every tutor’s favourite. DI Simon Fenchurch discovers she was living a double life, performing on webcam for a London crime boss. With suspects everywhere and his family under strain, he has to decide whom he can afford to anger.

Sidelined to a long-term investigation, DS Scott Cullen finally sees a chance to bring down Edinburgh ganglord Dean Vardy. When a masked vigilante starts delivering their own rough justice, Cullen must hold a fragile case together while wondering whether one of his own has crossed the line.

A City lawyer is discovered murdered on an East London building site, and soon another woman linked to a ride-hailing app suffers the same fate. As Fenchurch traces the victims’ connections to a controversial cab company, he uncovers a conspiracy that could finally answer questions about his missing daughter.

DC Craig Hunter of the Sexual Offences Unit is tracking Sean Tulloch, a charming soldier who moves in with women before violently controlling them. When Tulloch’s partner is attacked and he disappears, Hunter and DS Chantal Jain must chase him across borders and past the limits of official co-operation.

Fenchurch and his wife witness a young woman stabbed on a busy London street and he chases down a hoodie with a stash of stolen phones. The evidence does not fit, his superiors remove him from the case, and he must investigate off the books to find the real killer.

Ten years after his daughter Chloe was abducted, DI Simon Fenchurch is still working East London’s streets and searching for answers. When a young woman is found murdered, the case pulls him into a world of gangs, exploiters and grieving parents whose pain mirrors his own.

Responding to a domestic call, PC Craig Hunter hears sixteen-year-old Stephanie Ferguson accuse her stepfather of abuse. Before a full statement can be taken she vanishes from hospital, and Hunter, working with DS Chantal Jain, races to find her before family secrets turn lethal.

The disappearance of a Dundee dog breeder pulls DS Vicky Dodds into a case that quickly escalates beyond a missing person. As further crimes follow and the offenders’ message becomes clearer, Vicky has to decide where her sympathies lie and how far she is prepared to bend the rules.

A bloodied corpse is found under Edinburgh’s Dean Bridge, handcuffed and apparently fallen from height. Newly promoted DS Scott Cullen is drawn into the city’s lucrative financial sector, uncovering fraud, ruthless rivalries and powerful people with every reason to keep police far from their books.

On Hogmanay in Dundee, DS Vicky Dodds is called from a quiet night at home to a supermarket car park where a teenage girl lies dead beside her friend’s abandoned car. With the other girl missing, Vicky has only hours to decide whether she is hunting a victim or a killer.

A Christmas Eve murder and a New Year killing leave Cullen chasing suspects through frozen streets and debt-ridden lives. What begins as a jealous lover’s crime grows into a web of gambling, organised crime and desperate people willing to risk everything for one last chance.

When a decomposed body is discovered beneath Edinburgh’s Old Town, a screwdriver through the heart, Scott Cullen is plunged into a case that leads through the city’s music scene. Old grudges, failed bands and unsettled scores soon point toward a killer who has waited years to strike.

A sudden act of violence shatters a quiet Scottish town, leaving one person dead and others with everything to lose. As the investigation unfolds, buried relationships, bad decisions and simmering resentments all surface, turning a single shooting into a much wider reckoning.

At Dunpender Distillery near Dalkeith, a special cask is opened for the centenary and a mangled body tumbles out with the whisky. DC Scott Cullen must link the corpse to two workers who vanished twenty years earlier, unpicking family feuds and buried business rivalries to expose a killer.

A seemingly straightforward case in Edinburgh’s suburbs drags Cullen into a tight-knit community where loyalty counts for more than the truth. As he follows a trail through small businesses, local politics and long-standing grudges, he discovers just how far some people will go to protect their own.

New DC Scott Cullen is handed a missing-persons case that should be simple: a divorced mother who has not come home. When Caroline Adamson’s mutilated body is found and another woman disappears, Cullen realises he is facing a serial killer who hunts victims through a popular social network.

In the affluent town of Garleton, disabled schoolgirl Mandy Gibson is found dead and suspicion falls on a local tearaway teenager. Cullen’s search for the truth leads into a secretive religious group and a community determined to close ranks rather than confront what really happened.