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Dark Island

Dark Island
  • Author(s): Daniel Aubrey
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Reporter Freya Sinclair has always known she was different. While waiting on the outcome of an autism assessment, Freya uproots her life in Glasgow, quitting her job at one of Scotland’s top broadsheets and taking a local beat in...

Daughter of the Tide

Daughter of the Tide
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): France, The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1939

It is 1939 and the eve of the Second World War when the handsome sailor Ewan Mackinnon returns to his childhood home on the remote Hebridean island of Phetray. He was forced to run from the ignominy of a...

Dead Of Night

Dead Of Night
  • Author(s): Robert McNeill
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A French philanderer gets his comeuppance in Edinburgh, but which, if any, of his spurned lovers sealed his fate? A college lecturer is killed and dumped in the Union Canal. When DI Jack Knox investigates his past, he discovers...

Dead Souls

Dead Souls
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime

Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, Inspector John Rebus comes across a paedophile taking pictures of children. When the social workers claim he is there for legitimate educational reasons, Rebus is faced with a dilemma – should he...

Deadly Harm

Deadly Harm
  • Author(s): Owen Mullen
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

Five years ago Mackenzie Darroch was abducted and held captive in a derelict house. She thought she’d found her way out of the darkness. She was wrong… When Mackenzie witnesses a car crash and saves the driver’s life, it...

Death of a Gossip

Death of a Gossip
  • Author(s): M C Beaton
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Set in the fictional Highland village of Lochdubh When society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters joins the local fishing class she wastes no time in ruffling feathers – or should that be fins? – of those around...

Death On A Longship

Death On A Longship
  • Author(s): Marsali Taylor
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Death on a Longship: When she wangles the job of skippering a Viking longship for a film, Cass Lynch thinks her big break has finally arrived – even though it means returning home to the Shetland Islands, which she...

Death Wish

Death Wish
  • Author(s): Linda Huber
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): present day

Secrets. Lies. Murder. When Leo decides to go into business with his mother-in-law, he soon realises his mistake. Eleanor is the mother-in-law from hell and will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Her daughter, Ashley, has her...

Deception is the Old Black: A Viv Fraser Mystery

Deception is the Old Black: A Viv Fraser Mystery
  • Author(s): V Clifford
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Deception is the Old Black, Scottish super sleuth Viv Fraser is faced with a new investigation. When top brass of the National Task Force, summon her to root out a mole within their ranks, she realises she’ll be...

Digging up the Dead: A Viv Fraser Mystery

Digging up the Dead: A Viv Fraser Mystery
  • Author(s): V Clifford
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Viv Fraser, hairdresser, super-sleuth and resident of Scotland’s capital city retreats to a cottage in the country for some well earned R&R. She quickly discovers that walking the dog and staring at rolling pasture makes her tetchy. Enter DI...

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