Brings together some of the top media scholars to rethink the role of the archive and historical record from the perspective of writing media history.

FROM THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF RANDOM AND MURDERABILIA, a murder investigation frozen in time begins to melt.

November 1993. Scotland is in the grip of an ice-cold winter and the Lake of Menteith is frozen over. A young man and woman walk across the ice to the historic island of Inchmahome which lies in the middle of the lake. Only the man returns. In the spring, as staff prepare the abbey ruins for summer visitors, they discover the body of a girl, her skull violently crushed.

Present day. Retired detective Alan Narey is still haunted by...

A chilling thriller from Scotland's hottest crime writer--based on actual events that terrorized Glasgow in the 1960s.

A message from the grave. A case still unsolved. A city haunted by its sins.

Scotland 1972. Glasgow is haunted by a murderer nicknamed Red Silk--a feared serial killer who hunts his victims in the city's nightclubs. The case remains unsolved but Archibald Atto, later imprisoned for other murders, is thought to be guilty.

In modern-day Glasgow, DS Rachel Narey is called to a gruesome crime scene at the city's Necropolis. The body of a young woman lies...

In today's world of constant identification checks, it's difficult to recall that there was ever a time when "proof of identity" was not a part of everyday life. And as anyone knows who has ever lost a passport, or let one expire on the eve of international travel, the passport has become an indispensable document. But how and why did this form of identification take on such a crucial role?

In the first history of the passport in the United States, Craig Robertson offers an illuminating account of how this document, above all others, came to be considered a reliable answer to the...

Sunday Times bestselling author Craig Robertson delivers an atmospheric and smartly written thriller about a man with a dark secret who tries to escape his past--but finds that no matter how far he runs he cannot hide from himself...

When John Callum arrives on the desolate Faroe Islands, determined to sever all ties with his previous life and make a new start, he is surprised by how quickly he is welcomed into the close-knit community. But despite these dramatic life changes, the debilitating nightmares that haunt him just won't stop.

Then the sleepy peace is shattered by an...