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- Location(s): Glasgow, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
Lily Crawford and Jeanie Taylor, from very different backgrounds, are firm friends from their childhoods in Kirkcudbright. They share their ambitions for their futures, Lily to be an artist, Jeanie to be a dancer. The two women’s eventful lives...
Dandy Gilver and the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): 1930s
Glasgow,1932, is a city in the grip of dance-fever. Public ballrooms and backstreet dancehalls are thronged every night and competition for professional titles is fierce. Even after the sudden death of one of last year’s hopefuls there are plenty...
- Location(s): Glasgow, London, Scotland
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): 1985
Lisa Ballantyne, international bestselling author of The Guilty One, delivers a compelling domestic thriller with impeccably observed characters and masterful edge-of-your-seat storytelling in a novel that leaps between past and present with page-turning finesse They’re calling it the worst...
- Location(s): Glasgow, Costa del Sol
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Gangster Kerry Casey has fought her way to the top of the Glasgow crime scene. But can she stay there? Kerry Casey is now a fully-fledged gangland boss. With her business partner Sharon and her wily lawyer Marty at...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1800s
As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the...
- Location(s): Glasgow, Leadhills
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 2018
If no one knows you’re in danger, no one can save you… The Baxter house in the Lowther Hills, in Scotland, has been up for sale for decades. It’s dilapidated and near-derelict, and nobody is interested in it. But...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
A young man enters the culverted remains of an ancient Glasgow stream, looking for thrills. Deep below the city, it is decaying and claustrophobic and gets more so with every step. As the ceiling lowers to no more than...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Robert Argyll is a failing stand up comedian. To make matters worse, he drinks too much, can’t hold down a relationship and is going nowhere fast. When he gets the news of his mother’s death, he reluctantly makes the...
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Parallel Lines is an edgy, fast-paced crime thriller set in the streets of Glasgow that tells the story of the deadly rivalry between Detective Sergeant Gus Thoroughgood and his criminal nemesis, Declan Meechan. With Meechan on the verge of...
Picture Her Dead (#8 Rhona MacLeod )
- Location(s): Glasgow
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Picture Her Dead is Lin Anderson’s eighth novel in the Rhona MacLeod series, which follows a Scottish forensic scientist as she navigates brutal murders and family drama in the criminal underworld of Glasgow. As ever, the vibrant characterisation of...