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  • Author(s): Carys Davies
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1840s

1843. On a remote Scottish island, Ivar, the sole occupant, leads a life of quiet isolation until the day he finds a man unconscious on the beach below the cliffs. The newcomer is John Ferguson, an impoverished church minister...

Coming Home to Winter Island

Coming Home to Winter Island
  • Author(s): Jo Thomas
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ruby’s singing career is on the verge of hitting the big time, when her voice breaks. Fearing her career is over, she signs up for a retreat in Tenerife to recover. But an unexpected call from a stranger on...

Commandos

Commandos
  • Author(s): Richard Camp
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): World War II

Summer 1942. Defeatism hangs in the air. Britain stands alone. Winston Churchill is determined to strike back and has ordered the formation of a special operations force, dubbed “Commandos”, with the mission to “set Europe ablaze.” U.S. Marine Captain...

Confession to Murder

Confession to Murder
  • Author(s): Robert McNeill
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Edinburgh detectives hunt a man with an instinct to kill… After wrangling with his conscience, a priest approaches Edinburgh police and reports that a man confessed to killing a young woman. During a passionate petting session with the girl,...

Conviction

Conviction
  • Author(s): Denise Mina
  • Location(s): Fort William, Glasgow, Île de Ré (Île de Re)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s just a normal morning when Anna’s husband announces that he’s leaving her for her best friend and taking their two daughters with him. With her safe, comfortable world shattered, Anna distracts herself with someone else’s story: a true-crime...

Crimes of the Fallen

Crimes of the Fallen
  • Author(s): James Andrew
  • Location(s): Nairn
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Scottish detectives investigate when a young woman’s body is found… DI John Belivat and his junior partner DC Anna Crowe try to establish the identity of the victim, who has been stripped naked, murdered and left in Nairn’s seafront...

Cutting it Neat for the Wedding

Cutting it Neat for the Wedding
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Is the best man also Mr Wright? Perpetually single Hayley McBride – hairdresser and hopeless romantic – is delighted when her brother asks her to help plan his wedding. Until that is, she’s forced to work with her brother’s...

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...

Dan Knew

Dan Knew
  • Author(s): F J Curlew
  • Location(s): Tallinn, East Lothian, Kyiv, London, Parnu, Portugal, Scotland, Vilnius
  • Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2002 - 2016

A puppy born to the dangers of street life. A woman in trouble. An unbreakable bond. A Ukrainian street dog is rescued from certain death by an expat family. As he travels to new countries with them a darkness...

Dark Blood

Dark Blood
  • Author(s): Stuart MacBride
  • Location(s): Aberdeen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

Richard Knox has done his time and seen the error of his ways. He wants to leave his dark past behind, so why shouldn’t he be allowed to live wherever he wants? Detective Sergeant Logan McRae isn’t thrilled about...

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