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Noughts and Crosses

Noughts and Crosses
  • Author(s): Robert McNeill
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After powerful investors lose big, investigating a financial advisor’s murder won’t be child’s play for a strained detective. DI Knox’s Edinburgh team are busy dealing with a series of violent rapes when a man is found murdered on a...

One For Sorrow

One For Sorrow
  • Author(s): Helen Fields
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A breathtaking thriller with a devastating conclusion. I can’t stop thinking about it.’ – Bestselling author Susi Holliday One for sorrow, two for joy Edinburgh is gripped by the greatest terror it has ever known: a lone bomber is...

One Sweet Moment

One Sweet Moment
  • Author(s): Maggie Craig
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1820s

A tale of young love and old Edinburgh. Kate works in an oyster cellar in the Old Town and dreams of escape with her young brother Andrew from their grasping and predatory aunt and uncle. Richard Hope is a...

Parting Words

Parting Words
  • Author(s): Traude Ailinger
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Passions flare when amateur sleuthing meets modern policing in this cute Scottish murder mystery! When sassy Edinburgh journalist Amy Thornton infiltrates an environmental activist group, little does she know how quickly she’ll scoop a story worthy of the front...

Perfect Crime

Perfect Crime
  • Author(s): Helen Fields
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stephen Berry is about to jump off a bridge until a suicide prevention counsellor stops him. A week later, Stephen is dead. Found at the bottom of a cliff, DI Luc Callanach and DCI Ava Turner are drafted in...

Quite Ugly One Morning

Quite Ugly One Morning
  • Author(s): Chris Brookmyre
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 21 st Century

Yeah, yeah, the usual. A crime. A corpse. A killer. Heard it. Except this stiff happens to be a Ponsonby, scion of a venerable Edinburgh medical clan, and the manner of his death speaks of unspeakable things. Why is...

Rather Be the Devil

Rather Be the Devil
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): modern

John Rebus can’t close the door on the death of glamorous socialite Maria Turquand. Brutally murdered in her hotel room forty years ago, her killer has never been found. Meanwhile, Edinburgh’s dark heart is up for grabs. Young pretender...

Resurrection Men

Resurrection Men
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime

Rebus is off the case – literally. A few days into the murder inquiry of an Edinburgh art dealer, Rebus blows up at a colleague. He is sent to the Scottish Police College for ‘retraining’ – in other words,...

Rizzio

Rizzio
  • Author(s): Denise Mina
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1566

Longlisted for the 2022 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award It’s Saturday evening, 9 March 1566, and Mary, Queen of Scots, is six months pregnant. She’s hosting a supper party, secure in her private chambers. She doesn’t know that...

Rose Nicolson

Rose Nicolson
  • Author(s): Andrew Greig
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Dundee/St Andrews, The Scottish Borders
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 16th Century

Embra, winter of 1574. Queen Mary has fled Scotland, to raise an army from the French. Her son and heir, Jamie is held under protection in Stirling Castle. John Knox is dead. The people are unmoored and lurching under...

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