Detective-Sergeant Lou Perlman takes center stage in the investigation of a hanged man that leads him on a twisted trail through Glasgow in international bestselling author Campbell Armstrong's suspenseful crime novel Amid Glasgow's icy streets and Christmas decorations, a well-dressed businessman kills himself in a most public manner—hanging himself from Central Station Bridge. When it appears that the dead entrepreneur somehow dragged himself up that bridge, suicide is ruled out, and murder takes the lead. As Lou Perlman investigates the hanged man, something about the corpse reminds him of his childhood in the crime-ridden Gorbals section of the city. As one death follows another, his hunt for the killer takes him into dangerous territory. Glasgow's wintry streets shimmer with menace in this top-notch thriller about a good cop with a few too many secrets.

While pursuing a seductive female terrorist, Detective Frank Pagan crosses the line between duty and sexual obsession in international bestselling author Campbell Armstrong's spellbinding thriller. It's a name that makes counterterrorism agents' blood run cold because it is attached to hundreds of deaths—murders by hand, by bomb, by knife. Carlotta. She haunts Frank Pagan's dreams and seems to taunt him at every turn. Despite following every lead, the renegade detective can't catch the female terrorist he needs to thwart and bring to justice. As their cat-and-mouse game heats up, Frank can't admit to anyone but himself that he finds the woman fascinating—and that she seems to be equally attracted to him. With his final Frank Pagan novel, Campbell Armstrong delivers an incendiary psychological thriller.