T Frank Muir: 5 books

Set in the middle of winter in St. Andrews, this Scottish noir mystery is written by one of the UK's best crime writers, T. Frank MuirWhen a young woman's half-naked body is found on Fife's coastal path, frozen and with the remnants of a rope manacle around her wrist, DCI Gilchrist is given the case....

Det. Inspector Andy Gilchrist races the clock to stop a serial killer in this “tense, fast-paced crime novel” (Scottish Review of Books). Six corpses have appeared in the cobbled back streets of St. Andrews in recent times, all known spousal abusers who suffered the same gruesome fate:...

A detective looks into a skeleton in a Scottish cemetery—and, perhaps, into his own family’s past—in this “top-notch police-procedural” (Richmond Times-Dispatch). When a woman’s bones are discovered in a grave in St. Andrews—with no coffin and no marker—DCI Andy Gilchrist is...

When Thomas Magner's business partner is found dead in his car on the outskirts of St. Andrews, all evidence points to suicide. Meanwhile Magner, a wealthy property developer, is under investigation for a series of alleged rapes almost thirty years ago. In total, eleven women are prepared to go to...

A St. Andrews golf course is the site of a grisly discovery in this Scottish crime thriller. Murder. It’s the only word in a note clutched by the dismembered hand found on the lush green of a golf course in St. Andrews, Scotland. When DCI Andy Gilchrist learns the note is addressed to him,...