Bill Daly Libros

Simon Ramsay, a successful and seemingly respectable businessman, receives an email with a photograph attached. If he doesn't come up with 50k, the sender will release it to the press, and his career will be over. In a state of panic he contacts his mistress, Laura Harrison. He tells her a blackmailer has managed to get his hands on a compromising photograph of them in bed together. Terrified of what her violent husband will do if he finds out about her affair, she enlists the services of a psychopath, Billy McAteer to deal with the blackmailer. It is a moment of madness, and the repercussions are disastrous. It falls to DCI Anderson and his sidekick to unravel the trail of death and destruction."

'Daly evokes Glasgow with a masterly touch' ALEX GRAY IT consultant John Preston is found murdered on the streets of Glasgow, mobile missing, a hefty cash sum in his jacket. To DCI Charlie Anderson, it smells like a trap -- a victim lured to his death by someone he knew. On the same night, two local villains enact a grisly crucifixion scene in the toilets of a run-down pub. In Anderson's fourth assignment, his toughest yet, coppers' instincts count for nothing. Nor, it seems, does the truth. As the cases keep intertwining, a trail of false confessions and shocking revelations keeps the answers just beyond reach. Never Proven sees DCI Anderson confronting the failings of a system he's put his faith in -- and his own limits as a detective. Guilt is everywhere. But can he prove it?

When Anne Gibson, the wife of a Glasgow lawyer, mysteriously disppears from a block of flats in Glasgow, DCI Charlie Anderson has his work cut out to establish whether he's dealing with a case of abduction, suicide or murder.

A serial killer seems to be roving the city, targeting a range of victims from an elderly gypsy to a young female accountant and a heroin-addicted mercenary. In each case, the left hand is hacked off and sent to Charlie, along with a playing card. It's a high profile case, made tougher by media involvement, pressure from the top brass, tensions on the team. But when Charlie's own family is targeted by the killer; career concerns go out of the window. Now it's life and death.