Police Scotland: Books 4-6
(2025)(A book in the Police Scotland Edinburgh Crime Thrillers series)
An omnibus of novels by Ed James
The second collection of Police Scotland books.
Twenty years in the cask. Now the past won’t stay buried.
At a distillery deep in Midlothian countryside near Dalkeith, a master blender cracks open a cask laid down twenty years ago.
Inside is more than whisky.
The mangled corpse has no ID. No easy answers. And nobody else in CID wants the case.
DC Scott Cullen is used to being sidelined by his arrogant boss, DI Bain – but now he’s lead on a murder buried decades deep. Two distillery workers vanished within weeks of each other, just as the barrel was sealed. As Cullen digs into a past soaked in rivalry and rumour, he’s forced to untangle decades of silence from a family that’s not telling everything.
Now it’s Cullen’s job to find out who the body belongs to – and whether the killer is still around to strike again.
When a car is found at the base of Winchburgh bing outside Linlithgow, DC Scott Cullen is one of the first on the scene. The body inside is young, male and apparently killed on impact.
As Cullen follows the trail into the violent world of football hooliganism, he finds himself tangled in a case that’s dangerously close to home — and dangerously out of control.
With a looming restructure and his personal life in freefall, even his job’s on the line. They say Cullen’s a liability – this case might prove them right.
Things are finally going well for Acting Detective Sergeant Scott Cullen Scott Cullen. He’s just moved in with his girlfriend and, thanks to the recent police force merger, the promotion he craves is almost in reach. Just so long as he can keep out of trouble…
Then a severely decomposed body of a man is found in the labyrinthine alleyways of Edinburgh’s Old Town with a screwdriver through his heart. A message daubed on the wall:
I will kill again.
As Cullen races against time to save lives, the investigation leads him to unsettled scores in the music industry, where bands and their bitter rivalries might just have turned murderous.
Then Cullen’s relationship takes an alarming turn, just as the unsolved case begins to weigh heavily on him.
His maverick tactics have helped him in the past, but will they come back to haunt him — and put others in danger?
Genre: Mystery
Fire in the Blood
Twenty years in the cask. Now the past won’t stay buried.
At a distillery deep in Midlothian countryside near Dalkeith, a master blender cracks open a cask laid down twenty years ago.
Inside is more than whisky.
The mangled corpse has no ID. No easy answers. And nobody else in CID wants the case.
DC Scott Cullen is used to being sidelined by his arrogant boss, DI Bain – but now he’s lead on a murder buried decades deep. Two distillery workers vanished within weeks of each other, just as the barrel was sealed. As Cullen digs into a past soaked in rivalry and rumour, he’s forced to untangle decades of silence from a family that’s not telling everything.
Now it’s Cullen’s job to find out who the body belongs to – and whether the killer is still around to strike again.
Stab in the Dark
A wrecked car. Two dead bodies. A cop running out of chances.When a car is found at the base of Winchburgh bing outside Linlithgow, DC Scott Cullen is one of the first on the scene. The body inside is young, male and apparently killed on impact.
As Cullen follows the trail into the violent world of football hooliganism, he finds himself tangled in a case that’s dangerously close to home — and dangerously out of control.
With a looming restructure and his personal life in freefall, even his job’s on the line. They say Cullen’s a liability – this case might prove them right.
Cops and Robbers
A body found under ancient Edinburgh. A hidden serial killer.Things are finally going well for Acting Detective Sergeant Scott Cullen Scott Cullen. He’s just moved in with his girlfriend and, thanks to the recent police force merger, the promotion he craves is almost in reach. Just so long as he can keep out of trouble…
Then a severely decomposed body of a man is found in the labyrinthine alleyways of Edinburgh’s Old Town with a screwdriver through his heart. A message daubed on the wall:
I will kill again.
As Cullen races against time to save lives, the investigation leads him to unsettled scores in the music industry, where bands and their bitter rivalries might just have turned murderous.
Then Cullen’s relationship takes an alarming turn, just as the unsolved case begins to weigh heavily on him.
His maverick tactics have helped him in the past, but will they come back to haunt him — and put others in danger?
Genre: Mystery
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