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The Accused

The Accused
  • Author(s): Owen Mullen
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2021

When Private Investigator Charlie Cameron agrees to take on a cold case, he is drawn back into Glasgow’s dark underworld… Glasgow PI Charlie Cameron knew Kim Rafferty was bad news the moment they met. Desperate people always spelled trouble...

The Nowhere Emporium

The Nowhere Emporium
  • Author(s): Ross MacKenzie
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Winner of the Blue Peter Best Story Award 2016 and the Scottish Children’s Book Award 2016, and the North East Book Award 2015. When the mysterious Nowhere Emporium arrives in Glasgow, orphan Daniel Holmes stumbles upon it quite by...

Murder at the Mela

Murder at the Mela
  • Author(s): Leela Soma
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Newly appointed as Glasgow’s first Asian DI, Alok Patel’s first assignment is the investigation of the brutal murder of Nadia, an Asian woman. Her body was discovered in the aftermath of the Mela festival in Kelvingrove Park. During the...

The Fox Girl and the White Gazelle

The Fox Girl and the White Gazelle
  • Author(s): Victoria Williamson
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Reema runs to remember the life she left behind in Syria. Caylin runs to find what she’s lost. Under the grey Glasgow skies, twelve-year-old refugee Reema is struggling to find her place in a new country, with a new...

Daisy on the Outer Line

Daisy on the Outer Line
  • Author(s): Ross Sayers
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Life, Death and Time Travel on the Glasgow Subway… After selfish student Daisy makes a scene at her stepdad’s funeral, she drunkenly falls asleep on the Glasgow subway and wakes to find she has travelled back in time. And...

In Servitude

In Servitude
  • Author(s): Heleen Kist
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Grace’s beloved sister Glory dies in a car crash, her life spirals out of control. She discovers Glory was indebted to a local crime lord and laundering money through her café. What’s worse, Grace is now forced to...

The Less Dead

The Less Dead
  • Author(s): Denise Mina
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margo’s adoption. To this day, Susan’s killer...

The Long Drop

The Long Drop
  • Author(s): Denise Mina
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s

Glasgow, 1957. It is a December night and William Watt is desperate. His family has been murdered and he needs to find out who killed them. He arrives at a bar to meet Peter Manuel, who claims he can...

Laidlaw

Laidlaw
  • Author(s): William McIlvanney
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘If you only read one crime novel this year, this should be it’ Guardian ‘A bloody good read’ Val McDermid When a young woman is found brutally murdered in Kelvingrove Park, only one man stands a chance of finding...

Watch Him Die

Watch Him Die
  • Author(s): Craig Robertson
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modn

ONLY ONE PERSON CAN SAVE YOU. AND HE WANTS YOU DEAD.  The LAPD find a man dead at home. Nothing suggests foul-play but elements of the victim’s house show that something is deeply wrong. Meanwhile, in Glasgow, DI Rachel...

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