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- 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...
- 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)
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...