Collection: Crime by Susie Fleming

In a parrallel universe, I also write mainstream UK crime novels featuring Detective Inspector Viv Wylde, a sharp-tongued Yorkshire detective now working for Police Scotland. Viv has a penchant for Yorkshire tea, colorful expletives, and an uncanny ability to see through bullshit. Viv carries the weight of personal tragedy beneath her no-nonsense exterior, but her sardonic wit and refreshingly blunt observations provide unexpected moments of humor even in the darkest investigations.

Alongside her loyal team—methodical and but astute DC Alec Gunn, ambitious DS Cara Mullins, and the squeamish but enthusiastic DC Ross Buchanan—Viv navigates the absurdities of police bureaucracy and small-town eccentrics with equal parts exasperation and dark humor.

From the murk of Stirling tackling murder and organised crime in Blood Ties to the rugged Scottish Highlands in Blood Oath, where a burned body in a crashed van reveals a web of blackmail and revenge, these atmospheric thrillers balance nail-biting suspense with gallows humor. Because sometimes, when confronting the worst of humanity, laughter is the only sane response.