A series by Raymond Stone
The Legacy Unit
When Police Scotland was assembled in 2013 out of eight legacy forces, their records did not become one thing: they stayed eight things in one building, in eight filing systems, in three warehouses. The Legacy Unit follows the small team whose job is to put the same question to all of it at once, and the cases that only make sense once thirty-year-old paper from two different forces is finally read on the same day.
Reading order
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The Second Source
A Legacy Unit Novel
Eight police forces. One cupboard. Thirty-five years of paper nobody has read twice. When Police Scotland was assembled in 2013 out of eight legacy forces, their records did not become one thing. They stayed eight things in...
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Sufficiency
A Legacy Unit Novel
He told the Parole Board he did it. That is how he got out. In 2001 a jury convicted Martin Keir of murdering a seventeen-year-old girl in Kirkcaldy, and the country has known his face ever since. The tabloids named him the...
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Disclosure
A Legacy Unit Novel
The file was never empty. In December 2007 a bookmaker's cashier in Grangemouth was stabbed at closing time. Within two days the police had the man who did it. He confessed, a jury convicted him, and nobody has ever doubted...
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Habit and Repute Coming 2026/27
A Legacy Unit Novel
The records that marked him are the only records that can clear him. Detective Sergeant Morven Tait runs the Legacy Unit at Gartcosh, a small room that works through what a search across eight old Scottish police forces' paper...
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No Live Case Coming 2026/27
A Legacy Unit Novel
Some truths have nowhere to go. In 1987 a Fraserburgh man was convicted of murdering his wife. Her body was never found. He served his sentence, wrote to his son every birthday, and died in 2024 still saying he had not done...