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River Clyde

River Clyde
  • Author(s): Simone Buchholz, Rachel Ward (translator)
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mired in grief after tragic recent events, state prosecutor Chastity Riley escapes to Scotland, lured to the birthplace of her great-great-grandfather by a mysterious letter suggesting she has inherited a house. In Glasgow, she meets Tom, the ex-lover of...

Snapshot

Snapshot
  • Author(s): Craig Robertson
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A series of shootings by a lone sniper leaves Glasgow terrorised and the media in a frenzy. Who is behind the executions of some of the most notorious criminals in the city? As more deaths occur – including those...

The Birds That Never Flew

The Birds That Never Flew
  • Author(s): Margot McCuaig
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Battered and bruised, Elizabeth has taken her daughter and left her abusive husband Patrick. Again. In the bleak and impersonal Glasgow housing office Elizabeth meets the provocatively intriguing drug addict Sadie, who is desperate to get her own life...

The Black Dog

The Black Dog
  • Author(s): Kevin Bridges
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE BLACK DOG is the exciting debut novel from one of Britain’s most-loved comedians, Kevin Bridges Declan dreams of becoming a writer. It’s a dream that helps him escape the realities of his life – going through the motions...

The Breadmakers Saga

The Breadmakers Saga
  • Author(s): Margaret Thomson Davis
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

The Breadmaker’s Saga follows the story of a Glasgow working class community living through the dark days of the Depression and the Second World War. Clydend, McNair’s Bakery and the surrounding tenements, are all vividly and absorbingly depicted, as...

The Hurting

The Hurting
  • Author(s): R J Mitchell
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘The Hurting: The Glasgow Terror’ finds Gus Thoroughgood recovering from injuries received in his adventures in ‘Parallel Lines: The Glasgow Supremacy’ and wondering whether to continue his career in the Glasgow Police force. Having handed in his resignation, he...

The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter

The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter
  • Author(s): Malcolm Mackay
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings: a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The clues are there if you know to look for them. He is an expert. A loner. Freelance....

The Sideman

The Sideman
  • Author(s): Caro Ramsay
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘The dialogue crackles and the search for the killer has surprising twists and turns’ Observer Inside a beautiful Victorian family home in Glasgow’s West End, a mother and her young son are found brutally murdered. DI Costello is furious...

The Stone Gallows

The Stone Gallows
  • Author(s): C David Ingram
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Mdern

‘I guess the end justifies the means. At least that’s what I believe. Most of the time’. After the accident, DC Cameron Stone had spent three months in intensive care before he could even recall what happened: the high...

The Walk Home

The Walk Home
  • Author(s): Rachel Seiffert
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern ad 1990s

Stevie comes from a long line of people who have cut and run. Just like he has. Stevie’s been to London, taught himself to get by, and now he’s working as a labourer not so far from his childhood...

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