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Witness the Dead

Witness the Dead
  • Author(s): Craig Robertson
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to 1970s

Scotland 1972. Glasgow is haunted by a murderer nicknamed Red Silk – a feared serial killer who selects his victims in the city’s nightclubs. The case remains unsolved but Archibald Atto, later imprisoned for other murders, is thought to...

The Sixteen Trees of the Somme

The Sixteen Trees of the Somme
  • Author(s): Lars Mytting
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands, Norway, The Somme
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

By Norway’s bestselling novelist and the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD, a family story of epic scale. Edvard grows up on a remote mountain farmstead in Norway with his taciturn grandfather, Sverre. The death of his parents, when he was...

Beyond the Sea

Beyond the Sea
  • Author(s): Melissa Bailey
  • Location(s): Inner Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Set on a tiny fictional island off the coast of Mull, Inner Hebrides. One summer’s day, Freya’s husband and son vanish at sea. A year on, and struggling to cope, Freya returns to the lighthouse-keeper’s cottage on a remote...

Coffin Road

Coffin Road
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Isle of Harris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2012

A man stands bewildered on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris. He cannot remember who he is. The only clue to his identity is a folded map of a path named the Coffin Road. He does...

Displacement

Displacement
  • Author(s): Anne Stormont
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye, Israel, Palestine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The search for resolution after the upheaval of loss. A journey full of insight, forgiveness and love. Divorce, the death of her soldier son and estrangement from her daughter, leave Hebridean crofter, Rachel Campbell, grief-stricken, lonely and lost. Forced...

The Right Attitude to Rain (Isabel Dalhousie 3)

The Right Attitude to Rain (Isabel Dalhousie 3)
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The key to contentment in the Scottish climate is the right attitude to rain – just as in life the key to happiness lies in making the best of what you have. Bruised in love by her faithless Irish...

Beautiful Ugly

Beautiful Ugly
  • Author(s): Alice Feeney
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife as she’s driving home to share some exciting news. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing....

Black Hearts (The Skelfs Book 4)

Black Hearts (The Skelfs Book 4)
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Death is just the beginning… The Skelf women live in the shadow of death every day, running the family funeral directors and private investigator business in Edinburgh. But now their own grief interwines with that of their clients, as...

Coast

Coast
  • Author(s): Nick Crane
  • Location(s): England, Scotland, Wales
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2010

This is the first book to be written by a Coast presenter in a narrative format and it will become the definitive guide to our coastline. Nick Crane brings his geographer’s eye and love of the British landscape to...

Crash Land

Crash Land
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An adrenaline-charged thriller from the Kindle-bestselling author of Gone Again and Hit and Run. ‘An unnerving tale of what happens to ordinary lives when the wheels come off.’ VAL MCDERMID ‘A haunting, unforgettable page-turner that ticks every excellence box in crime writing.’ ALANNA...

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