Lin Anderson

Lin Anderson is best known as the creator of the FORENSIC SCIENTIST DR RHONA MACLEOD SERIES of crime thriller novels, and for her part in founding the annual 'Bloody Scotland' crime writing festival.

Lin's latest book is 'The High Island', Book 1 in her new spin-off ORCADIA MYSTERIES SERIES featuring Orkney-based Detective Inspector Erling Flett, published on 30th July 2026.

DI Flett has appeared in Books 9, 11, 16, and 19 of the RHONA MACLEOD SERIES.

Now, partly due to Lin's lifelong love of Orkney and its people, he has his own Series, as an expansion of Lin's Rhona MacLeod 'Universe'.

There are 19 novels and one novella in Lin's FORENSIC SCIENTIST DR RHONA MACLEOD SERIES :-

Novella - Blood Red Roses (prequel to Driftnet)

Book 1 - Driftnet (Scottish No.1 best seller and UK Kindle No.1 best seller)

Book 2 - Torch (Amazon Scottish Crime No.1 best seller)

Book 3 - Deadly Code

Book 4 - Dark Flight

Book 5 - Easy Kill

Book 6 - Final Cut

Book 7 - The Reborn

Book 8 - Picture Her Dead

Book 9 - Paths of the Dead (Shortlisted for Scottish Crime Book of 2015)

Book 10 - The Special Dead (Longlisted for Scottish Crime Book of 2016)

Book 11 - None but the Dead (Longlisted for Scottish Crime Book of 2017)

Book 12 - Follow the Dead (Shortlisted for Scottish Crime Book of 2018)

Book 13 - Sins of the Dead

Book 14 - Time for the Dead (Longlisted for Scottish Crime Book of 2020)

Book 15 - The Innocent Dead

Book 16 - The Killing Tide

Book 17 - The Wild Coast

Book 18 - Whispers of the Dead

Book 19 - The Dead and the Dying

Lin has one stand-alone psychological thriller :-

The Party House (Scottish No.1 best seller)

Lin has a mystery thriller series featuring private investigator Patrick Courvoisier, set in glamorous Cannes (think 'The Rockford Files' meets James Bond) :-

Book 1 - The Case of the Black Pearl

Book 2 - The Case of the Missing Madonna

Book 3 - Ice Cold in Cannes

Lin has co-written with Donald McKay two books in a BLAZE DOG DETECTIVE series for children :-

Book 1 - The Magic Flag Mystery

Book 2 - The Dinosaur Mystery