Robin Laing

When Danny accidentally buys an elephant, he accepts a job from a zookeeper to ride the elephant from Edinburgh to Manchester that turns into a journey that captures the attention of everyone in the country.

"Intrepid investigative journalist Shona Sandison, gone freelance following the tragic events of The Goldenacre, is attending the wedding of her closest friend and former colleague, Vivienne. But the night before the wedding, Vivienne's reclusive old school friend, Dan, throws himself off a roof. Shona is the only witness to the suicide--and so the only person who saw the occult tattoos covering Dan's body, and heard the unsettling, mystical phrases...

Shortlisted for the 2026 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction • Longlisted for the 2026 Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger Award • Longlisted for the 2025 Highland Book Prize • A Globe 100 Best Book of 2025

Booker-nominated Graeme Macrae Burnet returns to the historic Scotland of His Bloody Project to tell the multi-layered story of madness and murder in the MacPhee family.

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The critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling Declan Walsh series continues...Dying on stage is easy. When Dave Mansford, founding member of 80's band Alternator is electrocuted live on stage during a London comeback concert, DI Declan Walsh and the team of the Last Chance Saloon are brought in to investigate whether it was a simple accident, or vicious murder.However, as they investigate further they find the surviving members of Alternator...

The critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling Declan Walsh series continues..."We need to hunt a killer… It's you, Declan…"When an old friend of DI Declan Walsh is murdered, and an old enemy restarts their vendetta against him, he's placed in charge of solving the case alongside his fellow detectives in the Last Chance Saloon Crime Unit, realising in the process that somewhere a new narrative is being written for the murder; one where...

Daniel Freeman, Professor of Psychology at Oxford, has spent thirty years at the vanguard of paranoia research and treatment. This remarkable and moving book tells the story of that journey. For decades, conventional wisdom held that paranoia was only experienced by people with severe mental health problems and little could be done to rectify its disastrous effects. Paranoia gives us a front row seat as Freeman turns the traditional view on its head....

The critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling Declan Walsh series continues...Spike the story - before it spikes you... It's a time of change for the Last Chance Saloon - recent promotions have changed the focus of the Unit, and when a Fleet Street Legend, Hunt Robinson, is kidnapped from Heathrow Airport and found close to death in the crypt of Fleet Street's St Bride's Church, DI Declan Walsh and his colleagues need to put the past behind...

The critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling Declan Walsh series continues...To be the king - you need to kill the king. When East-End gangster and 'frenemy' to the Last Chance Saloon, Johnny Lucas, is accused of murdering a London gangland rival in his boxing club, he claims his brother was the killer.The only problem though is that his brother, Jackie, is actually Johnny's multiple personality.Pulled in to prove the case, DI Declan Walsh...