Rhona MacLeod Books in Order

Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is called to a Glasgow flat where a teenage boy has been strangled and mutilated, a boy who looks disturbingly like her. Haunted by the son she gave up for adoption, she follows the evidence into a hidden world that preys on vulnerable teens.

When a bride to be is found dead on a hen night, twisted on a nightclub bathroom floor with a terrifying grin, Rhona suspects poisoning. Her search for the truth drags her into Glasgow's lap dancing clubs and a dangerous web of obsession, exploitation and jealousy.

After a trawler hauls a decomposing human foot from the waters off Skye, Rhona is sent back to her island roots to investigate. The trail leads to secret tests, a powerful shadowy organisation and a conspiracy some in authority will do anything to bury.

In the run up to Hogmanay, a homeless girl dies in a suspected arson attack and similar fires erupt across Glasgow and Edinburgh. Rhona teams up with volatile fire investigator Severino MacRae to hunt a ruthless firestarter before the next blaze kills again.

A six year old boy vanishes and his mother and grandmother are found brutally murdered, with a chilling talisman made from child bones left behind. Rhona must decode its meaning and trace the killer's links to Nigeria before the missing child becomes the next victim.

The body of a young woman is discovered posed on a grave in Glasgow's sprawling Necropolis cemetery, her murder clearly sexual. When a second victim is found buried beneath her and sex workers start disappearing, Rhona joins a frantic search for a predator who sees women as easy prey.

After a stranger forces Claire's car off an icy road, her daughter Emma is found near the crash site clutching a child's skull she swears was calling to her. As Rhona investigates a charred corpse found in a skip, the two cases converge into a disturbing hunt for a serial killer.

A pregnant teenager is killed at a Glasgow funfair and her unborn baby is surgically removed, possibly alive. Rhona's investigation circles a psychiatric patient who crafts unnervingly lifelike reborn dolls and a tight group of girls known as the Daisy Chain, all hiding dangerous secrets.

Art student Jude Evans vanishes while photographing Glasgow's derelict cinemas, and the police are slow to act. Rhona, pushed by her son Liam, retraces Jude's steps through crumbling picture houses and uncovers a hidden body in the walls, along with a killer who treats ruin as their stage.

After a mother hears her living son's voice at a spiritualist meeting, a young man's body is found in a Neolithic stone circle above Glasgow, his hands severed and a numbered stone in his mouth. Rhona uncovers a grim Druid inspired game being played out across the hills.

A casual hook up turns to horror when Mark wakes in Leila's flat, opens the wrong door and finds her hanging among a forest of Barbie dolls. Rhona's forensic work exposes Wiccan ritual objects and a circle of influential men whose secret appetites have become lethal.

Human remains are unearthed at an old primary school on the remote Orkney island of Sanday just as a suspicious death in Glasgow points the police north. Stranded by storms with limited resources, Rhona and DS Michael McNab must untangle wartime memories, thirteen magic flowers and island loyalties before violence erupts again.

On holiday in the Cairngorms, Rhona joins a mountain rescue after a light aircraft crash and a fatal climbing accident high above a frozen loch. Back in Glasgow, DS McNab's raid on an exclusive club uncovers trafficked girls, and together they trace a trafficking network that links city nightlife to the remote Highlands.

What begins as a teaching exercise in Rhona's forensic science class turns chillingly real when one of four staged victims ends up truly dead. As more bodies appear arranged in the same ritual pose, signs point to a killer trained in forensics who is using their lessons to taunt her.

Still recovering from trauma, Rhona retreats to Skye and stumbles on a blood soaked room used by a close knit group of medics just back from Afghanistan. With the help of local tracker dog Blaze, she follows a trail from island cliffs to Glasgow, asking whether wartime trauma is now driving someone to kill.

The discovery of a child's remains in a peat bog south of Glasgow reopens the forty five year old disappearance of schoolgirl Mary McIntyre. As Rhona applies modern science to old bones, Mary's childhood friend Karen is forced to relive buried memories and confront what really happened the day her friend vanished.

After a ferocious storm, an apparently abandoned cargo ship drifts ashore in Orkney with three brutally killed bodies on board. While Rhona examines the disturbing crime scene, DS McNab investigates a woman burned on a Glasgow street, and together they uncover a conspiracy that reaches far beyond Scotland's coasts.

When a shallow grave is found on Scotland's remote west coast with a twig stickman left in the victim's mouth, Rhona is called in to investigate. As wild campers begin to vanish and sinister figurines appear at their sites, she must catch a predator using the coastline as a private hunting ground.

A man is found tied to a chair in Glasgow's Elder Park, murdered with a bullet engraved with a snake's head. At the same time, a Hollywood blockbuster filming in the city loses its star, and Rhona and DS McNab suspect a gangland revenge story is spilling off the script and into real life.

In the aftermath of a natural disaster at Orkney's Skaill Bay, Rhona volunteers with the rescue teams and uncovers a human skeleton sealed in a stone crypt. Thought at first to be Viking, the remains point to a much more recent crime and lead to further buried bodies, exposing secrets that implicate people at the heart of the investigation.