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Anthrax Island

Anthrax Island
  • Author(s): D L Marshall
  • Location(s): Gruinard Island, Inner Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern Day (2020s)

FACT: In 1942, in growing desperation at the progress of the war and fearing invasion by the Nazis, the UK government approved biological weapons tests on British soil. Their aim: to perfect an anthrax weapon destined for Germany. They...

At The Water’s Edge

At The Water’s Edge
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1945

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROMANTIC NOVELISTS’ ASSOCIATION HISTORICAL ROMANTIC NOVEL AWARD A gripping and poignant love story set in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands at the end of the Second World War. ‘the only fault I can find...

AVARICE

AVARICE
  • Author(s): Pete Brassett
  • Location(s): Ayrshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

When a body is found in a remote Scottish glen, DI Munro comes out of retirement to investigate The Police chief wants everything wrapped up before the upcoming regatta, but the locals are remarkably unforthcoming with helpful information. Sassy...

Bagpipes and Bullshot

Bagpipes and Bullshot
  • Author(s): Janice Horton
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A contemporary tale told with timeless Scottish romanticism and a knowing sense of humour. Bagpipes and Bullshot twists an everyday love story with a whole cast of village eccentrics into an entertaining play on rural life. “Bagpipes and Bullshot...

Becoming Lizzie Potts

Becoming Lizzie Potts
  • Author(s): V Clifford
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lizzie Potts is an intelligent sassy woman who’s led a charmed life . . . up until now! Cracks are appearing in her love life. Her steady job and her family relations are not what they seemed. A long-buried...

Being Tommy Boronovski: A London Suspense Thriller

Being Tommy Boronovski: A London Suspense Thriller
  • Author(s): A J Sendall
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Norwich
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000

When Mike Bray is grabbed off the street on his way home on an ordinary Friday night, his world is turned inside out. Coerced by the head of a South London crime gang to impersonate low-level criminal Tommy Boronovski,...

Betrayed

Betrayed
  • Author(s): N S Brooks
  • Location(s): British Virgin Islands, London, Mallorca, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A London lawyer is under suspicion from both the police and SO15 for two murders and running a business of supplying arms to terrorists. He cannot trust anyone. He becomes a target, caught between an Eastern European gang of...

Beyond Cutting: A Viv Fraser Mystery

Beyond Cutting: A Viv Fraser Mystery
  • Author(s): V Clifford
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An intelligent, sassy PI If you ever thought the life of a hairdresser was tranquil, then think again. Viv Fraser Ph.D and stylist to Edinburgh’s establishment has a double life as an investigative journalist. She’s smart, spirited and witty....

Beyond the Wild River

Beyond the Wild River
  • Author(s): Sarah Maine
  • Location(s): The Scottish Borders, Thunder Bay District
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1890s

Scotland,1893. Nineteen-year-old Evelyn Ballantyre, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, has rarely strayed from her family’s estate in the Scottish Borders. She was once close to her philanthropist father, but his silence over what really happened on the day...

Bitter Magic

Bitter Magic
  • Author(s): Nancy Kilgore
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

Bitter Magic, inspired by the true story of Isobel Gowdie and her witchcraft confession, reveals a little-known corner of history—the lives of both pagan and Protestant women in the Scottish Reformation of the 1600s as witch trials and executions...

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