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- Location(s): East Lothian, Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Cal McGill is an Edinburgh-based oceanographer, environmentalist and one-of-a-kind investigator. Using his knowledge of the waves – ocean currents, prevailing winds, shipping records – McGill can track where objects have come from, or where they’ve gone. So when two...
- Location(s): Edinburgh, Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lennox is a troubled teenager with no family. Ava is eight months pregnant and fleeing her abusive husband. Heather is a grieving mother and cancer sufferer. They don’t know each other, but when a meteor streaks over Edinburgh, all three suffer...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 19th Century
Edinburgh, 1888. A violinist is murdered in his home. The dead virtuoso’s maid swears she heard three musicians playing in the night. But with only one body in the locked practice room – and no way in or out...
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones (# 44 Scotland Street)
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear immune to the rollercoaster of strong emotions. But at 44 Scotland Street, as Matthew and Elspeth embark on the risky...
The World According to Bertie (#4 44 Scotland Street)
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Poor put-upon Bertie is still struggling to escape his overbearing mother’s influence, his yoga lessons and his pink bedroom while wondering why new baby brother Ulysses looks uncomfortably like his psychotherapist. The insufferably handsome Bruce has returned from London...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
If your dead wife emailed offering to find you a new girlfriend, what would you do? Andy Hunter is a single father trying to balance the demands of a 2-year-old daughter, an interfering but well-meaning mother-in-law and a job...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Alex Morris has lost everything:her relationship, her career and her faith in the future. Moving to Edinburgh to escape her demons, Alex takes a job teaching at a Pupil Referral Unit. It’s a place for kids whose behaviour is...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
It’s no ordinary summer for DCC Bob Skinner, as murder mystery leaps from the page into reality in the nineteenth volume of Quintin Jardine’s outstanding cop series. It’s August and the Edinburgh International Book Festival is in full swing....
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction, Dark Humour
- Era(s): Contemporary
They’re the housemates from Hell… When her disastrous Australian love affair ends, Lou O’Dowd heads to Edinburgh for a fresh start, moving in with her cousin, and preparing for the only job she can find … working at a...
Love Over Scotland (#3 44 Scotland Street)
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
With his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse. Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroic struggle for truth and...
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