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One Good Turn

One Good Turn
  • Author(s): Kate Atkinson
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident – an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander – until he...

Saints of the Shadow Bible

Saints of the Shadow Bible
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

Rebus is back on the force, albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder. He is investigating a car accident when news arrives that a case from 30 years ago is being reopened. Rebus’s team from those...

Sunshine on Scotland Street (#8 44 Scotland Street)

Sunshine on Scotland Street (#8 44 Scotland Street)
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Scotland Street witnesses the wedding of the century of Angus Lordie to Domenica Macdonald, but as the newlyweds depart on honeymoon Edinburgh is in disarray. Recovering from the trauma of being best man, Matthew is taken up by a...

The Falls

The Falls
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When a student vanishes in Edinburgh, there is pressure on Rebus to find her, particularly as she is the scion of a family of extremely rich bankers. Needless to say, this is more than just the case of a...

The First Blast of the Trumpet

The First Blast of the Trumpet
  • Author(s): Marie MacPherson
  • Location(s): East Lothian, Edinburgh, Fife
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

Hailes Castle, 1511. Midnight on a doom-laden Hallowe’en and Elisabeth Hepburn, feisty daughter of the Earl of Bothwell, makes a wish – to wed her lover, the poet David Lindsay. But her uncle has other plans. To safeguard the...

The Importance of Being Seven

The Importance of Being Seven
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Despite inhabiting a great city renowned for its impeccable restraint, the extended family of 44 Scotland Street is trembling on the brink of reckless self-indulgence. Matthew and Elspeth receive startling – and expensive – news on a visit to...

The Jump

The Jump
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Forth Bridge has a central starring part in this thriller….. Struggling to come to terms with the suicide of her teenage son, Ellie lives in the shadows of the Forth Road Bridge, lingering on its footpaths and swimming...

The Lost Art of Gratitude

The Lost Art of Gratitude
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher and amateur solver of other people’s problems, meets an old foe, Minty Auchterlonie, at a birthday party attended by their young children. Ambitious Minty, now the head of a small investment bank, is in trouble with...

The Sea Detective

The Sea Detective
  • Author(s): Mark Douglas-Home
  • Location(s): East Lothian, Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Cal McGill is an Edinburgh-based oceanographer, environmentalist and one-of-a-kind investigator. Using his knowledge of the waves – ocean currents, prevailing winds, shipping records – McGill can track where objects have come from, or where they’ve gone. So when two...

The Space Between Us

The Space Between Us
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lennox is a troubled teenager with no family. Ava is eight months pregnant and fleeing her abusive husband. Heather is a grieving mother and cancer sufferer. They don’t know each other, but when a meteor streaks over Edinburgh, all three suffer...

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