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The Cutting Room

The Cutting Room
  • Author(s): Louise Welsh
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

THE DARK SIDE of Glasgow lies behind this black, erotic thriller. Homosexual antique dealer Rilke is commissioned to sell at auction the entire contents of a deceased old man’s estate. What seems a straightforward deal turns suspicious upon the...

The Emergence of Judy Taylor

The Emergence of Judy Taylor
  • Author(s): Angela Jackson
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Judy Taylor married the first man who asked her. She lives in the neighbourhood where she spent her uneventful childhood. She still has the same friends she first met in primary school. But everything she once knew is about...

The Grand Scuttle

The Grand Scuttle
  • Author(s): Dan van der Vat
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1919

The Grand Scuttle became a folk legend in both Germany and Britain. However, few people are aware that Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter became the only man in history to sink his own navy because of a misleading report...

The Hunted (P R Black)

The Hunted (P R Black)
  • Author(s): P R Black
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

It’s been twenty years since they were all at school together. So when a group of female friends gather at a beautiful but isolated Scottish island lodge for a weekend away, they’re looking forward to relaxing, sharing updates on...

The Man in the Seventh Row

The Man in the Seventh Row
  • Author(s): Brian Pendreigh
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, East Lothian, Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Moving from North Berwick in East Lothian, Scotland, to Edinburgh and off to the States, Roy tells of his lifelong obsession with film. Roy is a film fan. He loves the cinema. What happened that turned his world inside...

The Playboy of Puerto Banús

The Playboy of Puerto Banús
  • Author(s): Carol Marinelli
  • Location(s): Puerto Banús, Scotland, Spain
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Rich, famous and notorious. Raul Sanchez Fuente scores 3 out of 3.’ When she agrees to help out a friend, Estelle Connolly doesn’t expect to end up as an escort to a society wedding – or to catch the...

The Road To Hell

The Road To Hell
  • Author(s): Gillian Galbraith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When the body of a half-clothed woman is discovered in an Edinburgh park, a murder investigation is launched. The victim has not been reported missing and there are few clues to her identity. Soon after, the naked corpse of...

The Seal King Murders

The Seal King Murders
  • Author(s): Alanna Knight
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1860s, Modern

1861. Constable Faro is heading home to Orkney, pursuing a private investigation into the mysterious drowning of an ex-colleague’s relative, champion swimmer Dave Claydon. Was this an accident or does Claydon ‘s death have a sinister connection with missing...

The Studio Game

The Studio Game
  • Author(s): Peter Burnett
  • Location(s): Aberdeen
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Taking the premise that the work of a deceased artist tends to increase demand, Peter Burnett s latest novel, The Studio Game questions the fashionable demand for conceptual art. Tracing the brushstrokes of Duchamp and Dali, is it all...

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
  • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

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