Manes H. Grünwald Book order (chronological)

When Detective Lucas Davenport is called to the white-stuccoed house, he knows it's for no usual case. For one thing, the victim is Alie'e Maison: as models go, one of the biggest. For another, there are a few small complications. Such as the drugs in her body and the fact that one of Lucas's own men is a suspect. Such as the surprise they find when they search the house: a second body, stuffed in a closet. The whole case is going to be like this, Lucas knows - secrets piled upon secrets, the ground shifting constantly under his feet. But even he cannot suspect the earth tremors he is about to feel, when an old lover comes back into his life ... whose own secrets may be the most dangerous ones of all...

When a wealthy banker is shot during a hunting trip, Lucas Davenport suspects murder.

Edinburgh, 2025 - sweat city. Global warming has led to strict water rationing. The ruling Council of City Guardians has been forced to become more user-friendly - so citizens now live for the weekly lottery draw. Then people start dying after drinking poisoned whisky, and subversive, blues-haunted investigator Quintilian Dalrymple is thrown into a nightmare case which threatens the Council's very existence. For Quint, distinguishing friend from foe soon becomes a question of life or death. And the body count, like the temperature, keeps on rising...