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A Winter Grave

A Winter Grave
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Kinlochleven, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Cli-fi, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2023 and 2051

A TOMB OF ICE A young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice. A DYING DETECTIVE Cameron Brodie, a Glasgow detective, sets out on a hazardous journey...

Echo of the Dead

Echo of the Dead
  • Author(s): Alex Gray
  • Location(s): Glencoe, Ballachulish
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The gripping 19th installment of the Sunday Times bestselling DSI Lorimer series (DSI William Lorimer) A consistent delight, wonderful’ ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH After a stressful winter, DSI William Lorimer is enjoying some time away from Glasgow. He and his...

Keeper of the Way

Keeper of the Way
  • Author(s): Patricia Leslie
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1600s to 1880s

Book one in a three book series: After news of grave robbing and murder in Dun Ringall, the ancient stronghold of Clan McKinnon on the Isle of Skye, Rosalie realises it is time to share her family’s secrets. Descendants...

Sealskin

Sealskin
  • Author(s): Su Bristow
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What happens when magic collides with reality?Donald is a young fisherman, eking out a lonely living on the west coast of Scotland. One night he witnesses something miraculous …and makes a terrible mistake. His action changes lives – not...

The Guest House

The Guest House
  • Author(s): David Mark
  • Location(s): Ardnamurchan, West of Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mum-of-three Ronni Ashcroft had just pieced her life back together after her husband left. On a remote spur of the Scottish Highlands, she kept her successful guest house going and even met a new man, Bishop. But it turned...

The Hunting Party

The Hunting Party
  • Author(s): Lucy Foley
  • Location(s): Inverness-shire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a remote hunting lodge, deep in the Scottish wilderness, old friends gather for New Year. The beautiful one The golden couple The volatile one The new parents The quiet one The city boy The outsider The victim. Not...

The Skylark’s Secret

The Skylark’s Secret
  • Author(s): Fiona Valpy
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Loch Ewe
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s & Contemporary

Loch Ewe, 1940. When gamekeeper’s daughter Flora’s remote highland village finds itself the base for the Royal Navy’s Arctic convoys, life in her close-knit community changes forever. In defiance of his disapproving father, the laird’s son falls in love...

The Spy Across The Water

The Spy Across The Water
  • Author(s): James Naughtie
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

From one of our most treasured BBC broadcasters, The Spy Across the Water is the third instalment in James Naughtie’s brilliant spy series, woven around three brothers bound together forever through espionage. We live with our history, but it...

The Tower

The Tower
  • Author(s): Flora Carr
  • Location(s): Perth and Kinross, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1560s

They are imprisoned, but not contained. Three women cross a loch. It is 1567, one of them is pregnant, two of them fretful. The boat takes them to Lochleven castle in the middle of the water. Awaiting them are...

The Sixteen Trees of the Somme

The Sixteen Trees of the Somme
  • Author(s): Lars Mytting
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands, Norway, The Somme
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

By Norway’s bestselling novelist and the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD, a family story of epic scale. Edvard grows up on a remote mountain farmstead in Norway with his taciturn grandfather, Sverre. The death of his parents, when he was...

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