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The Falls

The Falls
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime

A student has gone missing in Edinburgh. She’s not just any student, though, but the daughter of well-to-do and influential bankers. There’s almost nothing to go on until DI John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there’s more...

The Hanging Garden

The Hanging Garden
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime

DI John Rebus is hard at work on multiple cases. Not only is he on the trail of a WWII war criminal – he’s also become entangled in a dangerous battle between two rival gangs. But when his daughter...

The Health of Strangers

The Health of Strangers
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nobody likes the North Edinburgh Health Enforcement Team, least of all the people who work for it. An uneasy mix of seconded Police and health service staff, Mona, Bernard and their colleagues stem the spread of the Virus, a...

The Highland Falcon Thief

The Highland Falcon Thief
  • Location(s): London, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children

Harrison Beck is reluctantly joining his travel-writer Uncle Nat for the last journey of the royal train, The Highland Falcon. But as the train makes its way to Scotland, a priceless brooch goes missing, and things are suddenly a...

The House of Hidden Wonders

The House of Hidden Wonders
  • Author(s): Sharon Gosling
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Victorian Era

Zinnie and her sisters live in the murky tunnels beneath Edinburgh’s Old Town. They keep out of the way of the authorities and remain undetected. Until, that is, rumours of a ghost bring unwanted visitors into the caverns they...

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
  • Author(s): Emma Knight
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, London, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pen and Alice, childhood best friends from Toronto, are in their first year at the University of Edinburgh. Each has come to the city for her own reasons. Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something...

The Lost Storyteller

The Lost Storyteller
  • Author(s): Amanda Block
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE LOST STORYTELLER is the heartwarming and evocative debut novel from a stunning new voice in fiction, Amanda Block. Perfect for fans of Ruth Hogan, Jessie Burton and Diane Setterfield. Rebecca hasn’t seen her father Leo since she was...

The Maiden

The Maiden
  • Author(s): Kate Foster
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Later 1600s

Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster’s The Maiden is a remarkable story with a feminist revisionist twist, giving a voice to women otherwise silenced by history. “In the end,...

The Missing Shade of Blue

The Missing Shade of Blue
  • Author(s): Jennie Erdal
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When translator Edgar Logan arrives from his home in Paris to work in Edinburgh he anticipates a period of enlightenment and calm. But when he is befriended by the philosopher Harry Sanderson and his captivating artist wife, Edgar’s meticulously...

The Naming of the Dead

The Naming of the Dead
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime

A murder has been committed – but as the victim was a rapist, recently released from prison, no one is too concerned about the crime. That is, until Detective Inspector John Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke uncover evidence that...

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