Downloading Di MacKenzie: The first 4 cases

THE DI BLAIR MACKENZIE NOVELLAS – The First Four Cases
A woman hardened by the job. A love that makes her human.
A Scotland full of shadows that refuse to stay buried.
Detective Inspector Blair “Mac” Mackenzie has earned a reputation across the Highlands and Edinburgh for her relentlessness: the woman who refuses to quit, who hunts truth without blinking. What most don’t see is the cost.
Beneath the armour — the scars, the sleepless drive, the solitary edges — there is a fierce need to protect: the vulnerable, the forgotten, the people she loves but doesn’t quite know how to keep close.
Especially Rev. Evelyn Taylor, the quiet anchor who knows Mac’s storms better than she does.
Across four tightly woven novellas, Mac navigates violent mysteries that challenge not only her skill as a detective, but the walls she has built around herself.

The Hollow Moors
A woman is found dead on the remote moors of Invergarry Hollow—staged in a way that suggests devotion or desecration. Her young child is missing. As DI Blair Mackenzie races to find the girl alive, she begins to unravel a life marked by secrecy, coercion, and a quiet violence hidden in plain sight.
Her investigation brings her into conflict and reluctant connection with Reverend Evelyn Taylor, a priest whose compassion unsettles Blair’s practiced distance. What begins as a homicide inquiry becomes Mac’s first encounter with someone who might see past her armour—just as she hunts a killer who exploits those who have nowhere else to turn.


Before First Light
A murder staged like Renaissance art. A killer choreographing scenes of power and humiliation. As bodies replicate famous paintings, Mac confronts a mind that understands obsession as well as she does. With Evelyn now part of her world, Mac realises that solving crime is the easy part; learning how to stay soft in a brutal landscape is the real challenge.


What the Past is Owed
A teenage girl found dead in the winter cold draws DI Blair Mackenzie into a case built not on violence, but on exploitation. Ruby Evans was drugged, transported, and abandoned—her death linked to men who profit from silence.
When records reveal that Ruby’s mother was once protected by Reverend Evelyn Taylor, Blair is forced to step back, caught between duty and the woman she’s learning to love. As MCU uncovers coercion networks stretching from Edinburgh to London, Blair must confront a truth she cannot solve with force: justice sometimes means restraint, and love demands even greater courage.


Seventy-Two Hours
A biological attack strikes someone Mac loves. With the poisonous clock of organ failure ticking, Mac races against time through the stifling chaos of the Edinburgh Fringe. The case threatens to break her open in ways no killer ever has, leaving Evelyn and Mac forced to confront what it means to love someone who walks willingly into darkness.


Why Readers Love DI Mac

• Grit without glamor: crime seen through realism, not spectacle.
• Emotionally complex women at the center of both justice and intimacy.
• A slow-burn queer relationship that refuses clichés.
• Short, intense, unforgettable reads—each case a scalpel cut.