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The Sideman

The Sideman
  • Author(s): Caro Ramsay
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘The dialogue crackles and the search for the killer has surprising twists and turns’ Observer Inside a beautiful Victorian family home in Glasgow’s West End, a mother and her young son are found brutally murdered. DI Costello is furious...

The Singing Sands

The Singing Sands
  • Author(s): Josephine Tey
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 20th Century

On his train back to Scotland for a well-earned rest, Inspector Grant learns that a fellow passenger, one Charles Martin, has been found dead. It looks like a case of misadventure – but Grant is not so sure. Teased...

The Space Between Us

The Space Between Us
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lennox is a troubled teenager with no family. Ava is eight months pregnant and fleeing her abusive husband. Heather is a grieving mother and cancer sufferer. They don’t know each other, but when a meteor streaks over Edinburgh, all three suffer...

The Stone Gallows

The Stone Gallows
  • Author(s): C David Ingram
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Mdern

‘I guess the end justifies the means. At least that’s what I believe. Most of the time’. After the accident, DC Cameron Stone had spent three months in intensive care before he could even recall what happened: the high...

The Strings of Murder

The Strings of Murder
  • Author(s): Oscar de Muriel
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Edinburgh, 1888. A violinist is murdered in his home. The dead virtuoso’s maid swears she heard three musicians playing in the night. But with only one body in the locked practice room – and no way in or out...

The Tin-Kin

The Tin-Kin
  • Author(s): Eleanor Thom
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern, back to 1950s

When her aunt Shirley dies, Dawn finds herself back in her claustrophobic home town in Northern Scotland for the first time in years. She spends her days caring for her small daughter, listening to tapes of old country songs...

The Transcendent Tide

The Transcendent Tide
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • Location(s): Greenland, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s been eighteen months since the Enceladons escaped the clutches of an American military determined to exterminate the peaceful alien creatures. Lennox and Vonnie have been lying low in the Scottish Highlands, Ava has been caring for her young...

The Unbearable Lightness of Scones (# 44 Scotland Street)

The Unbearable Lightness of Scones (# 44 Scotland Street)
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear immune to the rollercoaster of strong emotions. But at 44 Scotland Street, as Matthew and Elspeth embark on the risky...

The World According to Bertie (#4 44 Scotland Street)

The World According to Bertie (#4 44 Scotland Street)
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Poor put-upon Bertie is still struggling to escape his overbearing mother’s influence, his yoga lessons and his pink bedroom while wondering why new baby brother Ulysses looks uncomfortably like his psychotherapist. The insufferably handsome Bruce has returned from London...

Thea and Denise

Thea and Denise
  • Author(s): Caroline Bond
  • Location(s): England, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Oh, you’re not crazy, Denise. I think this is probably the sanest you’ve ever been…’ Two women. An open road. The trip of a lifetime. Thea is confident, sorted, determined to have fun, but there are sorrows beneath the...

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