The DI Jack Knox Mysteries

One woman found dead. Another kidnapped. Two cases. One overworked Scottish detective. THE INNOCENT AND THE DEAD is the first in the DI Jack Knox series and comes with the prequel story LABYRINTH. In THE INNOCENT AND THE DEAD, DI Jack Knox is called in to investigate a high-profile case. A local...

MURDER AT FLOOD TIDE is the second DI Jack Knox murder mystery set in and around Edinburgh. Detective Jack Knox is faced with a troubling case when a woman’s body is found on a beach near Edinburgh. Police match her to missing persons, because her personal effects have been swept out to sea...

A French philanderer gets his comeuppance in Edinburgh, but which, if any, of his spurned lovers sealed his fate? DEAD OF NIGHT is the third book by Robert McNeill to feature Detective Inspector Jack Knox. A lecturer is killed and dumped in the Union Canal. When DI Jack Knox investigates his...

After powerful investors lose big, investigating a financial advisor’s murder won’t be child’s play for a strained detective. DI Jack Knox’s Edinburgh team are busy dealing with a series of violent rapes when a man is found murdered on a residential street. The detective splits the...

Cases come in thick and fast for the veteran crime solver… A student meets an untimely demise when she falls from Salisbury Crags in Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park. Was she pushed? Whilst DI Jack Knox is picking through the lies of the victim’s friends, he is called upon to help the narcotics...

Edinburgh detectives hunt a man with an instinct to kill... After wrangling with his conscience, a priest approaches Edinburgh police and reports that a man confessed to killing a young woman. During a passionate petting session with the girl, he flipped and strangled her. Following a hunch that...

Luck runs out for three poker players when a gunman calmly shoots them dead. DI Jack Knox quickly establishes that the intended target, the leader of a bank heist many years before, has slipped the net. But his team has to split up when a young woman, the daughter of a prominent figure, goes...