Twelve terrific stories is not just the tartan tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban conurbation with the full range of criminals and their victimsblackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer.

Twelve terrific stories starring Detective Inspector John an outstanding creation' (Daily Telegraph). His home city of Edinburgh is not just the tartan tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban conurbation with the full range of criminals and their victims - blackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It is a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, ccident and long-hidden jealousy.