Lt. George Murray needs his brother Charles' help. One of his fellow officers has not heard from his wife in Edinburgh for several weeks, and he's worried. George would go himself but Charles is only in Fife and besides, George is waiting in Belgium while a small man named Bonaparte, newly back from Elba, decides whether or not to leave Paris and fight. But what Charles Murray finds out in Edinburgh will not be straightforward, and in the end both brothers' lives will be in danger, in more ways than one.

1802. An ancient Scottish university is wracked by murder. A vindictive professor, a man seeking ministry, and an uncouth student lie dead. But who wanted to kill them? Charles Murray, a student with enough problems of his own, is drawn into the mystery, where neither tragic accidents nor good friends are what they seem. Death in a Scarlet Gown is first in the Murray of Letho series. www.murrayofletho.blogspot.com

A red dawn breaks over winter woodland, where two men stand, pistols drawn. Political strife has come to peaceful Ballater, bringing death in its wake, and Hippolyta Napier is once more drawn to find out more - even when her own life is in danger. This is the third in the Hippolyta Napier series set in 19th. century Scotland.

Charles Murray is in Edinburgh when tragedy strikes him. The deaths of a lawyer and a servant not only draw him down to the homes of the capital's grim underclass, but also make him reconsider his elegant society friends. Yet is everything quite as it seems? Who kills - and who gives the orders? Service of the Heir is the third in the Murray of Letho series, set in Georgian Scotland.