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Thin Air (Shetland #6)

Thin Air (Shetland #6)
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Unst, Shetland’s most northerly island, to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends to a Shetlander. But late on the night of the...

Tombstoning

Tombstoning
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • Location(s): Arbroath
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Turn of the 21st Century

Your best mate just fell off a cliff in mysterious circumstances. You were the last person to see him alive. What do you do? If you’re David Lindsay from Arbroath, you leg it – and don’t go back. Not...

Trade Winds

Trade Winds
  • Author(s): Christina Courtenay
  • Location(s): China, Gothenburg, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1730s

The protagonists of the story Jess van Sandt, Killian Kinross and their family and friends are all fictitious. But the story is based around the Swedish East India Company’s first journey to China in 1732

Twelve Minutes of Love

Twelve Minutes of Love
  • Author(s): Kapka Kassabova
  • Location(s): Argentina, Buenos Aires, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Kapka Kassabova first set foot in a tango studio ten years ago and, from that moment, she was hooked. With the beat of tango driving her on and the music filling her head, she’s danced across the world, from...

Waterline

Waterline
  • Author(s): Ross Raisin
  • Location(s): Glasgow, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Mick Little used to be a shipbuilder on the Glasgow yards. But as they closed one after another down the river, the search for work took him and his beloved wife Cathy to Australia, and back again, struggling for...

White Nights (Shetland Quartet 2)

White Nights (Shetland Quartet 2)
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide. He recognizes the victim – a stranger with amnesia who had disrupted a local party the...

Wildflower Bay

Wildflower Bay
  • Author(s): Rachael Lucas
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Serialised initially as three short ebooks, this is the stunning compilation of all three brought together. Isla’s got the designer clothes and dream job as head stylist at the most exclusive salon in Edinburgh. The fact that she’s been...

Fishnet

Fishnet
  • Author(s): Kirstin Innes
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Winner of Not The Booker Prize 2015 Twenty year old Rona Leonard walks out of her sister Fiona’s flat and disappears. Six years on, worn down by a tedious job, child care and the aching absence in her life,...

Love Byte

Love Byte
  • Author(s): David Atkinson
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

If your dead wife emailed offering to find you a new girlfriend, what would you do? Andy Hunter is a single father trying to balance the demands of a 2-year-old daughter, an interfering but well-meaning mother-in-law and a job...

Memory’s Hostage

Memory’s Hostage
  • Author(s): Margaret Pinard
  • Location(s): England, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1880s onwards

In the England of 1883, the MacFarlane family has earned a reputation for being titans of the rail, coal, and textile industries. Elder brother Henry toes the line in all respects but younger brother Horace has allowed a shadow to...

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