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Saints of the Shadow Bible

Saints of the Shadow Bible
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Rebus is back on the force, albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder. He is investigating a car accident when news arrives that a case from 30 years ago is being reopened. Rebus’s team from those...

Sealed With a Kiss

Sealed With a Kiss
  • Author(s): Rachael Lucas
  • Location(s): Argyll and Bute
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Kate’s dumped on her best friend’s wedding day by boring boyfriend Ian. She’s mostly cross because he got in first – until she remembers she’s now homeless as well as jobless. Faced with moving back home to her ultra-bossy mother,...

Snapshot

Snapshot
  • Author(s): Craig Robertson
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A series of shootings by a lone sniper leaves Glasgow terrorised and the media in a frenzy. Who is behind the executions of some of the most notorious criminals in the city? As more deaths occur – including those...

So Many Ways to Begin

So Many Ways to Begin
  • Author(s): Jon McGregor
  • Location(s): Aberdeen, County Donegal, Coventry
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s onward

The book follows a Museum Curator and adopted son through his life. Forgotten times, post war Britain, this is a piecing together of one life through mementos past and present. A life set in the context of history.

Stonemouth

Stonemouth
  • Author(s): Iain Banks
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The northern Scottish estuary burg of Stonemouth is run, gangster-style, by two families, one of which would rather Stewart Gilmour was not back on their patch. Just what the twenty-something lighting architect has done to earn the ire of...

Sunshine on Scotland Street (#8 44 Scotland Street)

Sunshine on Scotland Street (#8 44 Scotland Street)
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Scotland Street witnesses the wedding of the century of Angus Lordie to Domenica Macdonald, but as the newlyweds depart on honeymoon Edinburgh is in disarray. Recovering from the trauma of being best man, Matthew is taken up by a...

The Big Chill

The Big Chill
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Haunted by their past, the Skelf women are hoping for a quieter life. But running both a funeral directors’ and a private investigation business means trouble is never far away, and when a car crashes into the open grave...

The Blackhouse

The Blackhouse
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Isle of Lewis
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000s

From the back cover: A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith. A MURDER: Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate. For Lewis-born...

The Blue Hour

The Blue Hour
  • Author(s): Paula Hawkins
  • Location(s): The Scottish Borders, West of Scotland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a small bone at the centre of a famous sculpture is revealed to be human, three people become intimately connected by the secrets and lies that put it there. Set on a Scottish tidal island connected to the...

The Breadmakers Saga

The Breadmakers Saga
  • Author(s): Margaret Thomson Davis
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

The Breadmaker’s Saga follows the story of a Glasgow working class community living through the dark days of the Depression and the Second World War. Clydend, McNair’s Bakery and the surrounding tenements, are all vividly and absorbingly depicted, as...

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