CSI Glasgow

by Lin Anderson

CSI Glasgow: The first three novels that launched Lin Anderson’s best selling series starring Forensic Expert Dr Rhona MacLeod (Driftnet, Torch, Deadly Code)

Driftnet: A teenage boy is found mutilated in a Glasgow flat. Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is called to the scene, but her grim task is even more unsettling than normal by the boy's remarkable resemblance to her - Could he be the son she gave up for adoption seventeen years before?
Amidst the turmoil of her own love life and consumed by guilt from the past, Rhona sets out to find both the boy’s killer and her own son. The powerful members of an Internet paedophile ring have nothing to lose and everything to gain by Rhona MacLeod’s death.

Torch: It's Edinburgh, Scotland, days before the biggest New Year Party in the world. When Karen, a young homeless girl dies in one of a string of arson attacks, Dr Rhona MacLeod arrives to conduct the forensic investigation and is faced with Italian-Scot Severino MacRae, Chief Fire Investigator, and hot-tempered misogynist. Forced to work together in a desperate attempt to locate the arsonist before his threatened strike as the New Year is born, they realise that someone is anticipating their every move.

Deadly Code: When a decomposing foot is caught in a fishing net off the west coast of Scotland, the Ministry of Defence act quickly to subdue the story. Returning to her island roots, forensic expert Dr Rhona MacLeod becomes embroiled in a deadly international conspiracy, in which powerful people manipulate life, death and the future of humanity.

587 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 27, 2011

About the author

Lin Anderson was born in Greenock of Scottish and Irish parents. A graduate of both Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities, she has lived in many different parts of Scotland and also spent five years working in the African bush. A teacher of Mathematics and Computing, she began her writing career four years ago. Her first film, Small Love, which was broadcast on STV, was nominated for TAPS writer of the year award 2001. Her African short stories have been published in the 10th Anniversary Macallan collection and broadcast on BBC Radio Four.

Reviews

[Annemarie Groves · Rating 4 out of 5]

The mis-titled interesting read.

If you come at this book expecting a Catherine Willows or Calleigh Duquesne type person, or even a Kay Scarpetta or Temperance Brennan then you will be disappointed. The "CSI" aspect of the stories is dismissed in a sentences or a short narrative blurb.

However, as a crime thriller, where a lead character gets embroiled in a mystery because of her sense of curiosity and wanting to do 'right', then these three stories are a well balanced, well paced and carry the reader on and on and on to the next page/chapter.

[Mairi Deans · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent! Have read all the books in this series!