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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...

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...

Snapshot

Snapshot
  • Author(s): Craig Robertson
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A series of shootings by a lone sniper leaves Glasgow terrorised and the media in a frenzy. Who is behind the executions of some of the most notorious criminals in the city? As more deaths occur – including those...

The Breadmakers Saga

The Breadmakers Saga
  • Author(s): Margaret Thomson Davis
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

The Breadmaker’s Saga follows the story of a Glasgow working class community living through the dark days of the Depression and the Second World War. Clydend, McNair’s Bakery and the surrounding tenements, are all vividly and absorbingly depicted, as...

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