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Daisy Chain

Daisy Chain
  • Author(s): Maggie Ritchie
  • 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

Dandy Gilver and the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom
  • Author(s): Catriona McPherson
  • 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...

Everything She Forgot

Everything She Forgot
  • Author(s): Lisa Ballantyne
  • 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...

Fight Back

Fight Back
  • Author(s): Anna Smith
  • 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...

Gillespie and I

Gillespie and I
  • Author(s): Jane Harris
  • 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...

In Harm’s Way

In Harm’s Way
  • Author(s): Owen Mullen
  • 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...

In Place of Death

In Place of Death
  • Author(s): Craig Robertson
  • 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...

Morbid Relations

Morbid Relations
  • Author(s): Jonathan Whitelaw
  • 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...

Parallel Lines

Parallel Lines
  • Author(s): R J Mitchell
  • 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 )

Picture Her Dead (#8 Rhona MacLeod )
  • Author(s): Lin Anderson
  • 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...

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