Our Debts to the Past
A cold case. A guilty conscience. A killer still at large.When campaigner Heather McGill forces Police Scotland to reopen the cold case murder of a local sex worker at Scott's View, a beauty spot in the Scottish Borders, she sets off a chain reaction that threatens to unravel decades of secrets.
DCI Rob Marshall is tasked with investigating the crime his predecessors failed to solve – but the evidence leads back to the group of teenagers who found the body, now all grown up with new lives of their own.
Meanwhile, Duncan Brown has returned from Canada to care for his ailing mother, but is he hiding a terrible secret?
As guilt, obsession and long-buried truths collide, someone will do anything to keep the past from coming to light.
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Ed James
Ed James is a Scottish author who writes crime fiction novels across multiple series and in multiple locations.
The books in his various series are intertwined. The author combined the Cull, Bain, and Hunter series into the Police Scotland series. Refer to the Reading Order item in the Join the Discussion section for the author’s suggested reading order.
Formerly an IT project manager, Ed filled his weekly commute to London by writing on planes, trains and automobiles. He now writes full-time and lives in the Scottish Borders with a menagerie of rescued animals.
DI Rob Marshall
DI Rob Marshall consists of nine books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

