Joanne Ross Books in Order

When a boy is found dead in a canal lock in the 1950s Scottish Highlands, two girls' account is dismissed. Joanne Ross and her newspaper colleagues investigate a community whose respectable appearance conceals prejudice and troubling secrets.

Two deaths on the same day connect families on a Scottish estate and offer Joanne Ross a major reporting opportunity. Her friendship with a woman involved complicates an investigation that exposes divisions within the Black Isle.

The murder of the Highland Gazette's office manager leaves Joanne Ross covering new duties while her colleagues investigate. As an intriguing stranger distracts her, the case exposes old secrets that threaten relationships within the newspaper and town.

A severed leg creates a newspaper sensation, while Joanne Ross pursues an American singer searching for her missing husband's colleagues. Threatening letters and an attack on the woman who found the limb suggest the stories may connect.

Journalist John McAllister returns to Glasgow to search for a friend caught in a feud with a murderous razor gang. The investigation pulls him between dangerous city loyalties and his planned marriage to Joanne Ross.

When artist Alice Ramsay, accused of witchcraft, dies in a remote Scottish glen, Joanne Ross doubts the suicide verdict. Government visitors and an ambitious art critic deepen her suspicion that Alice's past holds the explanation.