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Hebridean Storm

Hebridean Storm
  • Author(s): Libby Patterson
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, The Outer Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Matt Macaulay, a young Royal Marine, has been invalided out of the service and finds himself back home in South Uist disillusioned and without a purpose. He encounters an enigmatic stranger on the Uist hills and becomes enmeshed in...

Her Heart for a Compass

Her Heart for a Compass
  • Author(s): Sarah Ferguson Duchess of York
  • Location(s): Ireland, London, New York City (NYC), Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s/70s

London 1865 In an attempt to rebel against a society where women are expected to conform, free-spirited Lady Margaret Montagu Scott flees her confines and an arranged marriage. But Lady Margaret’s parents, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, as...

Hex

Hex
  • Author(s): Jenni Fagan
  • Location(s): North Berwick
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1591

A powerfully poignant tale of one of the most turbulent moments in Scotland’s history: the North Berwick Witch Trials.IT’S THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 1591.On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floors below Edinburgh’s...

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): late 20th century

A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict – until John Rebus begins to chip away at the...

Hiding

Hiding
  • Author(s): Jenny Morton Potts
  • Location(s): Scotland, North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

A gripping psychological thriller with chilling twists, from a unique new voice. Keller Baye and Rebecca Brown live on different sides of the Atlantic. Until she falls in love with him, Rebecca knows nothing of Keller. But he’s known...

Highcrag

Highcrag
  • Author(s): Rosemary Gemmell
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Cate Stewart’s life falls apart, a job cataloguing the vast library at Highcrag on the Scottish east coast sounds perfect. Especially since she has a personal interest in the notorious Scottish witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth...

Highland Arms

Highland Arms
  • Author(s): Cathie Dunn
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Georgian, 1720s

Escape to the Scottish Highlands in this “vivid & suspenseful romance”. Betrayed by her brother’s lies, Catriona MacKenzie is banished from her home to her godmother’s manor in the remote Scottish Highlands. While her family ponders her fate, Catriona’s...

Highland Fling on the Whisky Trail

Highland Fling on the Whisky Trail
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

What happens in Glenbriar stays in Glenbriar When sunny and efficient Felicity Swan lands her dream job as PA to the new CEO of the Glenbriar Whisky Co., the dream soon turns into a nightmare. Gavin Sinclair isn’t what...

Highland Games

Highland Games
  • Author(s): Evie Alexander
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Castle Leod
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She’s left her life behind for a dream… Inheriting a cabin in a remote corner of Scotland, sunny Zoe ditches the big city and heads for the Highlands. But her fantasies are shattered by reality. The roof leaks, there’s...

His Bloody Project

His Bloody Project
  • Author(s): Graeme Macrae Burnet
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1869

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 The year is 1869. A brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae. A memoir...

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