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Bitter Magic

Bitter Magic
  • Author(s): Nancy Kilgore
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

Bitter Magic, inspired by the true story of Isobel Gowdie and her witchcraft confession, reveals a little-known corner of history—the lives of both pagan and Protestant women in the Scottish Reformation of the 1600s as witch trials and executions...

Black and Blue

Black and Blue
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

In the 1960s, the infamous Bible John terrorised Scotland when he murdered three women, taking three souvenirs. Thirty years later, a copycat is at work, dubbed Johnny Bible. DI John Rebus’s unconventional methods have got him in trouble before...

Black Water

Black Water
  • Author(s): Barbara Henderson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1792

Down by the coast, black water swirls and hides its secrets… Dumfries, 1792. Henry may only be thirteen, but he has already begun his training in the Excise, combatting smuggling like his father does. But when a large smuggling...

Blind Eye

Blind Eye
  • Author(s): Stuart MacBride
  • Location(s): Aberdeen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Someone’s preying on Aberdeen’s growing Polish population. The pattern is always the same: men abandoned on building sites, barely alive, their eyes gouged out and the sockets burned. With the victims too scared to talk, and the only witness...

Blood on Old Stones

Blood on Old Stones
  • Author(s): Alex Gray
  • Location(s): Isle of Mull
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Book 23 in the DSI William Lorimer series The wildest places often conceal the darkest secrets… DSI William Lorimer never expected that the next time he’d visit the Isle of Mull – where he and his wife, Maggie, have...

BloodLine

BloodLine
  • Author(s): Nick Bastin
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern era (alternate history)

It is the third book in the ‘Black Tower’ trilogy. It is an alternate history where Bonnie Prince Charlie won the Battle of Culloden and after this death a Gaelic Republic was established for the Highland and Islands of...

Blue Bonnets

Blue Bonnets
  • Author(s): Marie Laval
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

Book 2 in the Dancing for the Devil Trilogy. Bruce McGunn, laird of Wrath in the far North of Scotland, is as brutal and unforgiving as his land. Discharged from the army, haunted by the spectres of his fallen...

Breaker

Breaker
  • Author(s): Annemarie Allan
  • Location(s): East Lothian
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

AN ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERAN UNDERSEA ADVENTURE Tom and Beth are not happy when they move to North Berwick in Scotland and find themselves facing a rainy, windswept beach, a house that’s falling to pieces and a school full of strangers....

Bright Sparks

Bright Sparks
  • Author(s): Traude Ailinger
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A suspicious death ignites a blame game within a family full of secrets… When an Edinburgh villa goes up in flames, grumpy DI Russell McCord is called in to investigate. Someone died in the fire, and it looks like...

BURNING SUSPICION

BURNING SUSPICION
  • Author(s): James Andrew
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): present

After a devastating house fire, a blame game starts to tear a family apart… When Alex Ross receives a phone call telling him that his house is on fire, he immediately drives home from work at full pelt. Noticeably...

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