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The Falls

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

When a student vanishes in Edinburgh, there is pressure on Rebus to find her, particularly as she is the scion of a family of extremely rich bankers. Needless to say, this is more than just the case of a...

The First Blast of the Trumpet

The First Blast of the Trumpet
  • Author(s): Marie MacPherson
  • Location(s): East Lothian, Edinburgh, Fife
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

Hailes Castle, 1511. Midnight on a doom-laden Hallowe’en and Elisabeth Hepburn, feisty daughter of the Earl of Bothwell, makes a wish – to wed her lover, the poet David Lindsay. But her uncle has other plans. To safeguard the...

The Glass House

The Glass House
  • Author(s): Beatrice Colin
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

Beatrice Colin’s The Glass House is a gorgeously transporting novel filled with turn-of-the-century detail and lush blooms, about two women from vastly different worlds Scotland, 1912. Antonia McCulloch’s life hasn’t gone the way she planned. She and her husband,...

The Good Father

The Good Father
  • Author(s): Liam McIlvanney
  • Location(s): Fairlie, North Ayrshire
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gordon and Sarah Rutherford are normal, happy people with rich, fulfilling lives. They have a son they adore, a house on the beach and a safe, friendly community in a picture-postcard town. Until, one day, Bonnie the labrador comes...

The Good Girl

The Good Girl
  • Author(s): Sinclair Macleod
  • Location(s): Dundee/St Andrews
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Craig Campbell is asked to find a missing girl but at first it looks like she has left to start a new life. Then a body is found on a local beach and he must break through a wall...

The Guesthouse at Lobster Bay

The Guesthouse at Lobster Bay
  • Author(s): Annie Robertson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Conteporary

When Emma sees The Guesthouse at Lobster Bay for sale, she knows it’s the seaside haven she needs to recover from a recent trauma. But as soon as Emma collects the keys, her dream of owning a successful guesthouse...

The House Between Tides

The House Between Tides
  • Author(s): Sarah Maine
  • Location(s): The Outer Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

A beautiful debut novel set in the Outer Hebrides, The House Between Tides strips back layers of the past to reveal a dark mystery. In the present day, Hetty Deveraux returns to the family home of Muirlan House on...

The Hurting

The Hurting
  • Author(s): R J Mitchell
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘The Hurting: The Glasgow Terror’ finds Gus Thoroughgood recovering from injuries received in his adventures in ‘Parallel Lines: The Glasgow Supremacy’ and wondering whether to continue his career in the Glasgow Police force. Having handed in his resignation, he...

The Importance of Being Seven

The Importance of Being Seven
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Despite inhabiting a great city renowned for its impeccable restraint, the extended family of 44 Scotland Street is trembling on the brink of reckless self-indulgence. Matthew and Elspeth receive startling – and expensive – news on a visit to...

The Impossible Dead

The Impossible Dead
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Kirkcaldy
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern back to 1980s

In a conversation on Twitter Ian Rankin discloses why this book was set where it was: Impossible Dead was set in Kirkcaldy because owner of local restaurant paid charity to be mentioned in one of my books! Malcolm Fox...

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