SCOTTISH CRIME FICTION · THE DCI SURINDER TAWS MYSTERIES
Dark, atmospheric crime fiction rooted in Scotland’s ancient coast.
Rachel Bremner writes mysteries set on the rugged Aberdeenshire coastline, where local legend is never quite as innocent as it seems, and a detective’s fresh start can end with a body on the first morning.
If you love Ann Cleeves, LJ Ross and Elly Griffiths, you’ve just found your next obsession.
BOOK 1 · THE DCI SURINDER TAWS MYSTERIES
A killer who believes murder is justice.
When a young woman’s body is discovered at the foot of Dunnottar Castle’s ancient cliffs, DCI Surinder Taws wants to believe it was suicide. She can’t.
Carved into the victim’s skin is a red spiral, a mark tied to a centuries-old legend the locals call the Crimson Keep.
Then a second woman is found. Same mark. Same killer. And now he’s getting bolder.
MEET DCI SURINDER TAWS
She came to Stonehaven to escape her past. She found a murder instead.
Sindy is smart, stubborn, menopausal and not remotely interested in playing politics. She’s exactly the kind of detective you root for from the first page, and exactly the kind Stonehaven’s killer didn’t expect.
Her story starts before Stonehaven – in Glasgow, with a death everyone else wanted filed as an accident. Read the free prequel novella and meet the detective the series is built around.
The DCI Surinder Taws Mysteries
Read them in any order – but this is the order Sindy lived them.
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The Returning Woman
Before Stonehaven, there was Glasgow – and a death everyone wanted filed as an accident. Free when you join the list.
BOOK 1
The Crimson Keep
A body beneath Dunnottar Castle. A red spiral carved into skin. A legend that never quite died.
BOOK 2 · COMING NEXT
The Salt Wives
Sindy’s second case on the Aberdeenshire coast. Details soon – newsletter readers hear first.
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