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- 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
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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