Books by Lin Anderson

From Lin Anderson, the author of the Rhona MacLeod series, comes a twisting psychological thriller set in the Scottish Highlands for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware and Sarah Pearses &i>The Sanatorium&/i>.

When three bodies are found on a wrecked ship in the Orkney Isles, forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is brought in to investigate.

Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod digs up secrets from the past in the fifteenth novel in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series.

When a young photographer goes missing while visiting a derelict Glasgow cinema, forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod steps in to track her down.

A terrifying killer who leaves a trail of dolls is on the loose and forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod joins the investigation.

Forensic Scientist Rhona MacLeod is called in to investigate when a badly burned body is found in a skip.

Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod finds herself joining the hunt for a sadistic serial killer when a series of young women are found murdered in Glasgow.

When a young boy goes missing, forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is called in to investigate a chilling series of clues left behind.

Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod investigates a sinister discovery in Scotland's Isle of Skye

The first novel in Lin Anderson's series featuring forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod.

Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod joins an investigation to apprehend a terrifying arsonist on the streets of Edinburgh.

Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod travels to the Isle of Skye to heal old wounds in the fourteenth novel in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series.

Follow the Dead is a suspenseful forensic thriller, the twelfth in the Rhona MacLeod series by Lin Anderson.

The Special Dead is the thrilling tenth book in Lin Anderson's Rhona MacLeod series.When Mark is invited back to Leila's flat and ordered to strip, he thinks he's about to have the experience of his life. Waking later he finds Leila gone from his side. Keen to leave, he opens the wrong door and finds he's entered a nightmare; behind the swaying Barbie dolls that hang from the ceiling is the body of the girl he just had sex with.Rhona MacLeod's forensic investigation of the scene reveals the red plaited silk cord used to hang Leila to be a cingulum, a Wiccan artefact used in sex magick. Sketches of sexual partners hidden in the dolls provide a link to nine powerful men, but who are they? As the investigation continues, it looks increasingly likely that other witches will be targeted too.Working the investigation is the newly demoted DS Michael McNab, who is keen to stay sober and redeem himself with Rhona, but an encounter with Leila's colleague and fellow Wiccan Freya Devine threatens his resolve. Soon McNab realizes Freya may hold the key to identifying the men linked to the dolls, but the Nine will do anything to keep their identities a secret.

Paths of the Dead is the thrilling ninth book in Lin Anderson's Rhona MacLeod series.When Amy MacKenzie agrees to attend a meeting at a local spiritualist church, the last person she expects to hear calling to her from beyond the grave is her son. The son whom she'd only spoken to an hour before. Then the body of a young man is found inside a Neolithic stone circle high above the city of Glasgow and forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is soon on the case. The hands have been severed and there is a stone in the victim's mouth with the number five scratched on it. DI Michael McNab is certain it's a gangland murder, but Rhona isn't convinced. When a second body is found in similar circumstances, a pattern begins to emerge, of a killer intent on masterminding a gruesome Druidic game that everyone will be forced to play . . .

This is the first book on the movie and approaches the life and legacy of William Wallace by way of the modern image of the hero presented in the movie.

Crime fiction inspired by Scotland's iconic buildings: in Bloody Scotland twelve of Scotland's best crime writers use the sinister side of the country's built heritage in stories that are by turns gripping, chilling and redemptive.