{"title":"Tana Collins","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"mark-of-the-devil-book-tana-collins-9781912604180","title":"Mark Of The Devil","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile Inspector Jim Carruthers and team are busy investigating a series of art thefts, they receive an anonymous tip-off about the body of a young woman on a deserted beach. The bizarre clues to her identity and what might have happened to her include a strange tattoo, a set of binoculars and a slab of meat left on the cliffs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe team's investigations lead them to a local shooting estate and its wealthy owner, Barry Cuthbert. However, Carruthers suspects Cuthbert is not all he seems and the DI soon starts to wonder if the cases of the missing works of art, the dead woman and the estate are connected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the body of a young gamekeeper is pulled from the sea, tensions boil over. The trail of clues lead the team to the unlikely location of Tallinn and into the sinister world of international crime and police corruption.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeeding answers, Carruthers must look further afield than Fife. However, the closer he gets to the truth, the more danger he finds himself in. Since everyone who crosses the vengeful killers seems to end up dead, can Carruthers solve the case with his life intact?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49528122900753,"sku":"GOR009359918","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53110184018193,"sku":"NIN9781912604180","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53143131816209,"sku":"GOR014771432","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53488369565969,"sku":"NLS9781912604180","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1912604183.jpg?v=1751347215"},{"product_id":"in-deep-water-book-tana-collins-9781913419745","title":"In Deep Water","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen local fisherman, Robert Paterson goes missing it is assumed by DCI McTavish that the man has fallen victim to another tragic fishing accident.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, things don't add up for Inspector Jim Carruthers. Why did Paterson take his boat out at night when he would normally fish during the day? Has he taken his own life or has something more sinister taken place?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen a bloodied body shows up on the uninhabited Isle of May. Carruthers is shocked to find it is not that of the fisherman. He suspects the two events are connected. But how?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA journalist who had been investigating the two cases disappears. As Carruthers tries to uncover what she discovered more questions arise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHas someone been leaking information to the press?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf so, why?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd, will the journalist be found alive?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith the case getting more complicated and a murderer on the loose in this tight-knit coastal community, Carruthers has his work cut out.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49558349218065,"sku":"GOR010852668","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51700389085457,"sku":"GOR011591310","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1913419746.jpg?v=1750996737"},{"product_id":"care-to-die-book-tana-collins-9781912175284","title":"Care to Die","description":"\u003cp\u003eStruggling with his demotion back to DI and his concern for the grieving DS Andrea Fletcher, Jim Carruthers is thrown in at the deep end when the body of an old man is discovered stabbed to death in a nature reserve- a ball of cloth rammed into the back of the victim's throat. The only suspect is a fifteen-year-old neighbour who is known to the police for antisocial behaviour. But the teenager has an alibi. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a second elderly man is also found dead at the same locale, with the same MO, Carruthers starts to wonder if they have a serial killer on their hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn discovering that the first victim, Ruiridh Fraser, has an estranged son living in Iceland, Carruthers flies out to interview the man, now convinced that the reason behind Fraser's death lies in his past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what does the disappearance of a twelve year old boy forty years before, the brutal murder of a former journalist and a bitter local dispute about a nature reserve, have to do with the investigation?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan Carruthers and Fletcher solve the case while battling their own demons?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnd are they hunting for one killer or more?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49591931502865,"sku":"GOR009804484","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50589825466641,"sku":"GOR010704942","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51053232292113,"sku":"NIN9781912175284","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51392063176977,"sku":"GOR014252735","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53488369074449,"sku":"NLS9781912175284","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1912175282.jpg?v=1750867630"},{"product_id":"robbing-the-dead-book-tana-collins-9780995692695","title":"Robbing the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn a small Scottish university town, what links a spate of horrible murders, a targeted bomb explosion and a lecturer's disappearance? Is a terror group involved? If so, who is pulling the strings? And what does something that happened over forty years ago have to do with it? \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHaving recently returned to Castletown in the hope of winning back his estranged wife, DCI Jim Carruthers finds himself up to his eyes in the investigation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStruggling with a very different personal problem, DS Andrea Fetcher assists Jim in the hunt for the murderous perpetrators. To prevent further violence they must find the answers quickly. But will Jim's old adversary, terror expert McGhee, be a help or a hindrance?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first in a new series featuring DCI Jim Carruthers\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49592824693009,"sku":"GOR009362217","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50370561540369,"sku":"CIN0995692696G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51011497591057,"sku":"NIN9780995692695","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53143131848977,"sku":"GOR009269893","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53488381788433,"sku":"NLS9780995692695","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0995692696.jpg?v=1750748430"},{"product_id":"dark-is-the-day-book-tana-collins-9781912986262","title":"Dark Is The Day","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDI Jim Carruthers has to put his personal feelings for newly- appointed DCI Sandra McTavish aside when a young student is brutally attacked and left for dead.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, when a university lecturer is stalked by one of her own students, Carruthers is horrified to discover that the academic is none other than his ex-wife, Mairi. Are the attacker and stalker one and the same, and if so, will Carruthers' ex-wife be next?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a second then a third victim is discovered, not only dead but mutilated, Carruthers and his team are tasked with searching for a murderer. A murderer who takes great pleasure from killing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the victims' connection to a cult in North America, which seems to be getting a stranglehold in a Scottish university? Why have these women been targeted? And who is doing the killing?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt looks like there might be a serial killer on the loose in Castletown but can DI Jim Carruthers stop this depraved murderer before they strike again?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50278225903889,"sku":"GOR010958726","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50751817023761,"sku":"GOR011302525","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1912986264.jpg?v=1751218820"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-tana-collins.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}