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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2007
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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Full Series List in Order

An Anderson & Costello Mystery

1 - Absolution (Jan-2007)
2 - Singing to the Dead (May-2009)
3 - Dark Water (Aug-2010)
4 - The Blood of Crows (Aug-2012)
5 - The Night Hunter (Nov-2014)
6 - The Tears of Angels (Sep-2015)
7 - Rat Run (Aug-2016)
8 - Standing Still (Jun-2017)
9 - The Suffering of Strangers (Mar-2018)
10 - The Sideman (Oct-2018)
11 - The Red, Red Snow (Jun-2020)
12 - On an Outgoing Tide (Apr-2021)
13 - The Silent Conversation (Dec-2021)

A DCI Christine Caplan Thriller

1 - The Devil Stone (Dec-2022)
2 - In Her Blood (Aug-2023)
3 - Out of the Dark (Aug-2024)

Book List in Order: 18 titles



  • A consummate debut novel of crime and obsession that The Washington Post dubbed "one of the year's best literary thrillers."

    It's twenty years since police detective Alan McAlpine has set foot in Patrickhill Station―and more than twenty year...



  • Two seven-year-old boys have been abducted from the streets of Glasgow. Both had already endured years of neglect and betrayal. But for Detective Inspector Colin Anderson the case is especially disturbing, because the boys look so much like his own s...



  • A gently used clean copy free from markings. All pages intact with no ink markings or highlighting. Good condition book with only light signs of previous use. May include some minor cover, corner, edge and/or minimal binding wear....



  • For DI Colin Anderson, there's no such simple thing as right and wrong.As his seemingly clear-cut conviction of paedophile Skelpie Fairbairn is declared unsafe, Anderson finds himself under investigation. Pressure on the DI mounts as an elusive crimi...



  • A young woman determines to find out what happened to her missing sister in this tense and twisting psychological thriller Elvie McCulloch’s sister Sophie has been missing for 57 days. She went out for a run -- and never came home. Several young...



  • Past crimes cause new murder in this tense and twisting psychological thriller A few days before the summer solstice a 92-year-old woman is found burned to death in her home. On the same day, a man’s mutilated corpse is discovered in a field, hi...



  • A macabre discovery throws disturbing new light on a 20-year-old murder case in the latest tense and twisting Anderson and Costello mystery. In August 1992, a young mother and her two small sons were brutally murdered in the woods behind their ho...



  • Something very sinister is going on behind the scenes at Glasgow’s West End Festival parade in the compelling new Anderson and Costello mystery. Paige Riley has been missing for a week. Not that anyone cares much about the homeless heroin addic...



  • When a six-week-old baby is stolen from outside a village shop, Detective Inspector Costello quickly surmises there's more to this case than meets the eye. As she questions those involved, she uncovers evidence that this was no impulsive act as the p...






  • With no evidence against him and no known motive, DI Costello must break the rules if she is to get her man. Detective Inspector Costello has resigned. No notice, no goodbyes. Convinced that George Haggerty murdered his wife and son despite his ca...



  • From the acclaimed author of the Anderson & Costello series, a compelling standalone psychological thriller.

    Megan Melvick has returned home after a three-year absence to visit her dying sister, Melissa, for the last time. As she approaches t...



  • Called to investigate the bloodstained aftermath of an eventful Christmas party, detectives Anderson & Costello discover that the holiday season can be anything but merry.

    A family man is stabbed to death at a crowded Christmas Ice Show. Murde...



  • Two murders, forty years apart. What links them? Detectives Anderson & Costello undertake their most baffling investigation to date. The body is found in the early hours of the morning, drifting lifelessly on the outgoing tide. Twenty-three-year...



  • Megan Melvick has spent years avoiding her inheritance, the dark and disquieting family estate Benbrae, now home only to her distant, aristocratic father, and her sister Melissa, dying quietly in an upstairs bedroom. Trapped behind her unreliable hea...



  • When DNA evidence links a present-day murder to the disappearance of a young boy four years earlier, detectives Anderson & Costello are plunged into a baffling mystery. It's been four years since four-year-old Johnny Clearwater disappeared without tr...



  • In the village of Cronchie, a wealthy family are found brutally murdered. The Devil Stone, an heirloom rumoured to bring death if removed from their home, is the only thing stolen. The key suspects are known satanists. But when the investigating offi...



  • When a body is discovered in the water at the Falls of Lora, it looks like a straightforward suicide. But when DCI Christine Caplan's superior officer alerts her to similarities with a locked case - and a legal minefield - she discovers that darker t...



  • A young woman is missing, but has she run away – or been captured?A dying cop asks DCI Christine Caplan to fulfil her last wish: to investigate a cold case that’s still preying on her mind. The naked body of a young man that...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Caro Ramsay has published 18 books.

The next book by Caro Ramsay, Out of the Dark, will be published in August 2024.

The first book by Caro Ramsay, Absolution, was published in January 2007.

Yes. Caro Ramsay has 2 series.