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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...

The Amber Fury

The Amber Fury
  • Author(s): Natalie Haynes
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Alex Morris has lost everything:her relationship, her career and her faith in the future. Moving to Edinburgh to escape her demons, Alex takes a job teaching at a Pupil Referral Unit. It’s a place for kids whose behaviour is...

A Burden Shared

A Burden Shared
  • Author(s): Malcolm Archibald
  • Location(s): Dundee/St Andrews
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Second half 19th Century

The second book in the Mendick Mystery Series. Following “The Darkest Walk”, when Sergeant Mendick is sent to Dundee to collect a prisoner, he expects a speedy return to London but instead an unfortunate turn of events see him...

A Painted Winter

A Painted Winter
  • Author(s): H Barnard
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early Medieval

In the misty highlands of fourth century Scotland, two Pictish brothers conspire with the Ancient People from beyond the Great Wall to attack the Romans. Roman power in Britannia is weakening. Brothers Brei and Taran, Princes and warriors of...

A Small Weeping

A Small Weeping
  • Author(s): Alex Gray
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The body of a prostitute is found at Glasgow ‘s Queen Street Station, her hands, pointing towards her feet, placed as if in prayer, a small flower pressed between the palms. Psychologist Solomon Brightman is called to assist DCI...

A Suitable Lie

A Suitable Lie
  • Author(s): Michael J Malone
  • Location(s): Ayr
  • Genre(s): Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Some secrets should never be kept… Andy Boyd thinks he is the luckiest man alive. Widowed with a young child, after his wife dies in childbirth, he is certain that he will never again experience true love. Then he...

A Taste For Malice

A Taste For Malice
  • Author(s): Michael J Malone
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

DI Ray McBain is back at work and on filing duty. Desperate for something to do, a pair of old files intrigue him. In the first a woman pushes her way into a vulnerable family. The children adore her....

Beyond Evidence

Beyond Evidence
  • Author(s): Emma L Clapperton
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

In an alley way of the back streets of Glasgow there lies a decomposing corpse of a slain female baking in the midday heat. No one has found her yet, but medium Patrick McLaughlin knows she is there. It...

Calum’s Road

Calum’s Road
  • Author(s): Roger Hutchinson
  • Location(s): Isle of Raasay

Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very tip of his little archipelago, until semi-automation in 1967 reduced his responsibilities. ‘So what he decided...

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