Henry Carter Hull

Three friends, having met a crime boss at an art auction, decide to steal three paintings from the National Gallery in Edinburgh, coming in contact with forgers, a Hell's Angel, and other people with ulterior motives during their attempt.

Edinburgh's Detective Inspector John Rebus, in the final days of his career, begins to wonder what his legacy will be when his superiors urge him to quietly close the book on the case of a dissident Russian poet found beaten to death in the street while an elite delegation of Russian businessmen is in town, looking to invest in Scotland.

The lives of three people come together in a small English town as Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe investigates the disappearance of a well-known doctor.

Isabel Dalhousie helps a doctor accused of scientific fraud clear his name and restore his stellar reputation, but when her investigation pits her against a powerful pharmaceutical company, Isabel fears she may be in over her head.

Charles Stross' novel Halting State is a brilliantly conceived techno-crime thriller. The year is 2012, and China, India, and the United States are waging an infowar for economic domination. With innocent gamers mere pawns in the hands of electronic intelligence agencies, programmer Jack Reed is tasked with ferreting out the plot of those who would gladly trade global turmoil for personal gain.

Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he's been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as "resurrection men," he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group has been assigned an unsolved murder that may have resulted from Rebus's own mistake. Now Rebus can't determine if he's been set up for a fall or...