Gavin MacDonald

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 2007
  • Latest Book:
    April 2017
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Forsyth and McRae

Pay the Price (Aug-2011)

Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • Publish and Be Dead

    A detective novel in the tradition of classic whodunnits. An Edinburgh publisher is murdered in an apparently motiveless crime in an office where the window is fastened and the door locked on the inside. Two possible clues are the wrong date on the...

  • The Crime Committee

    Sergeant MacRae's first case with Chief Inspector Ian Forsyth, explaining their odd relationship and giving a humorous insight into the Scottish university scene. A lecturer is murdered in Inverforth University and MacRae is appalled when Forsyth...

  • Death Is My Mistress

    Another case for DCI Ian Forsyth. An Edinburgh wine and spirits merchant is found dead in a junk yard when he should have been on a sleeper train to London. Supposed regular trips to London appear to have been an excuse to visit a mistress. When it...

  • My Frail Blood

    DCI Forsyth and DS MacRae skive off from a course they are attending in Inverness to investigate the murder of the alcoholic wife of a professor. She appears to have been knifed after returning to their house up a glen from a drinking binge, her bod...

  • Dishing the Dirt

    When six professors are drugged at a dinner and then humiliated by being smeared with unpleasant substances, Sergeant MacRae is baffled, but Chief Inspector Forsyth forsees a related incident which turns out to be the murder of a lecturer notorious f...

  • Swallow Them Up

    A young woman's body is found in woodland near Edinburgh but no-one of that description is on a missing list. When Chief Inspector Forsyth solves that mystery, it becomes clear that the death is connected with an amateur theatrical company. The man w...

  • The Truth in Masquerade

    In the living room of his house is found the body of a retired builder who has managed to drag himself to a table and who has a china rabbit in one hand and an orange pip in the other. Two days later, in the family home is found the body of his forme...

  • I Spy, I Die

    When a man murdered in a house near Edinburgh turns out to be a spy, Detective Sergeant Alistair MacRae wonders whether MI6 might be behind the killing, although there are plenty of other suspects who wanted the spy dead. When the spy's valet is murd...

  • Passport to Perdition

    An old school friend of Detective Sergeant Alistair MacRae of the Lothian and Borders Police appeals to him for help after he and his girl friend are subjected to a series of harassing incidents. MacRae is able to ensure that the harassment comes to ...



  • The Root of All Evil

    With DCI Forsyth on holiday, his squad investigates the murder of a couple in what looks like a gangland killing, and it turns out that the couple have lied as to how they obtained their wealth. When DS MacRae hears of a previous, similar killing, th...

  • Bloody and Invisible Hand

    While DCI Ian Forsyth is on holiday, DS Alistair MacRae has to lead the squad in an investigation of the murders of three ex-Army personnel from a unit that operated in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. The first murder takes place during a reuni...

  • Pay the Price

    Forsyth and McRae

    DCI Forsyth and DS MacRae are called to a house from which a young lady has been kidnapped and where they find the sister and brother of the victim at loggerheads about the involvememt of the police. The first attempt to pay the ransom is aborted whe...

  • Bow At a Venture

    When a body with no identity is found in an Edinburgh hotel, Detective Chief Inspector Ian Forsyth is able to deduce that the body has not been killed in that room and find out the name of the dead man, who was a faith healer. The wife of the healer...

  • The Plaintive Numbers

    A financier, who is proposing to write his autobiography, is found murdered with a visiting card in his hand. Sergeant Alistair MacRae is astounded when Chief Inspector Ian Forsyth is able to deduce that the hand had originally held a playing card an...

  • The Forsyth Saga

    A volume featuring thirteen of Dci Ian Forsyth's cases narrated by Ds Alistair MacRae. How can a woman under observation vanish without trace? How can half a dozen diamonds not be found in a room where they have been hidden by a thief? Why are the po...

  • The Second Forsyth Saga

    These are thirteen further cases solved by DCI Forsyth as narrated by DS MacRae. How can a man escape from a locked room which has only one door and no windows when the door is under constant surveillance? How is it possible for a man to be murdered ...

  • Murder of an Unknown

    When a naked body is found in a room in a prestigious hotel in Edinburgh, and nothing is known about him except his name because his registration document has been stolen, Dci Ian Forsyth and Ds Alistair MacRae are at a loss to know how to proceed un...

  • Mysteries of Space and Time

    A writer of popular science fiction stories, which bear little resemblance to reality, takes a trip to the moon on a space ship. But how will he cope with the tricks that the crew will play on him? Because every robot has the Three Laws of Robotics i...

  • The Long Arm

    When the two Merton brothers are tortured and murdered, there is no shortage of suspects. Principal among these are the Merton sister, the two Douglas brothers, whose family have been feuding with the Mertons for centuries and various inhabitants of ...



  • Double Jeopardy

    When Joseph Carrington kills a man for whose alleged murder he has just spent twenty years in prison, DCI Forsyth and DS MacRae are keen to find out who told him of the victim's new identity. There are a number of suspects, but Carrington refuses to ...

  • Rendezvous with Death

    DCI Ian Forsyth and DS Alistair MacRae are baffled as to why elderly people are being killed by being shot in the head while asleep in bed. They are also investigating the murder of the eldest son of a local landowner and business man. Forsyth is eve...

  • A Forsyth Duo

    This book contains two of the cases of DCI Ian Forsyth. In the first, a number of men are tortured and killed, but there seems, at first, no connection between them. With Forsyth on holiday, DS Alistair MacRae and his team establish the connection an...

  • Encore Forsyth

    In MURDERS OF NOTE DCI Ian Forsyth sees more in the mugging of a student after he has left an Edinburgh city centre bar than DS Alistair MacRae does. His version is justified when one of the people involved in the mugging is murdered. When a further ...

  • Green Pastures and Other Stories

    In Green Pastures, a wealthy man is murdered but all his family have alibis. When further murders occur, Ds MacRae goes for the wrong killer. But Dci Forsyth solves the mystery by using logical deduction In Hostage Crisis, Ds MacRae believes that a h...

  • The Old Man at the Bar

    The old man sits on a stool at the end of the bar counter in the Covenanter Bar. What few people know is that he is an expert at solving abstruse problems. One who does is Inspector Adam Bailey. When he has a difficult case to which he can see no sol...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gavin MacDonald has published 25 books.

Gavin MacDonald does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Old Man at the Bar, was published in April 2017.

The first book by Gavin MacDonald, Publish and Be Dead, was published in September 2007.

Yes. Gavin MacDonald has 1 series.
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