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Death at the Plague Museum

Death at the Plague Museum
  • Author(s): Lesley Kelly
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Three senior civil servants are dead or missing. As their brief is management of the deadly Virus, Bernard, Mona and the rest of the hard-pressed Health Enforcement Team are fighting not just a pandemic, but government secrets.

Death On A Winter’s Day (Lady Eleanor Swift mystery book #8)

Death On A Winter’s Day (Lady Eleanor Swift mystery book #8)
  • Author(s): Verity Bright
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

Christmas at the castle with holly, handmade gifts, snowflakes and… is that a body under the tree? Someone call Lady Swift! Winter, 1921. Lady Eleanor Swift, amateur sleuth and reluctant lady of the manor, has been invited to spend...

Emotional Geology

Emotional Geology
  • Author(s): Linda Gillard
  • Location(s): North Uist
  • Era(s): Modern

Rose Leonard is on the run from her life. Taking refuge in a remote island community, she cocoons herself in work, silence and solitude in a house by the sea. But she is haunted by her past, by memories...

Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is certain of where she stands. She can review a book called In Praise of Sin with panache and conviction,...

From A Wonky Path To An Open Road: A short book about a long journey

From A Wonky Path To An Open Road: A short book about a long journey
  • Author(s): Janey de Nordwall
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2019

In 2019, BAFTA-winning film producer, Janey de Nordwall packed her bags (and her cat), fired up her 1970s VW campervan and headed off from her London home to Scotland for a solo road trip that would change her life....

I’ll Keep You Safe

I’ll Keep You Safe
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Isle of Lewis, Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A stunning standalone thriller from Peter May, alternating between the glamorous fashion world of Paris and the rugged beauty of the Isle of Harris. WHATEVER HAPPENS Niamh and Ruairidh Macfarlane co-own the Hebridean company Ranish Tweed. On a business...

Murder on the Second Tee

Murder on the Second Tee
  • Author(s): Ian Simpson
  • Location(s): Dundee/St Andrews
  • Genre(s): Crime

Murder on the Second Tee is the follow-up to the popular crime fiction novel Murder on Page One. The directors of the niche Bucephalus Bank are meeting in a St Andrews hotel. One of them is found dead on...

My Husband’s Lover

My Husband’s Lover
  • Author(s): Jess Ryder
  • Location(s): The Ardnish Peninsula, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A wife. A mistress. A week away with no escape… As my girlfriends and I sip wine and share secrets in the flickering candlelight of our remote Scottish hideaway, we all agree we need this break. Every morning we...

No Longer Safe

No Longer Safe
  • Author(s): A J Waines
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She was your best friend. Now she’s your deadliest enemy – and there’s nowhere to run… When Alice receives an invitation from Karen, her charismatic University friend, to stay in a remote cottage in Scotland, she can’t wait to...

Outlander

Outlander
  • Author(s): Diana Gabaldon
  • Location(s): Inverness
  • Genre(s): Time Slip, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s back to 1740s

1946, and Claire Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank. It’s a second honeymoon, a chance to re-establish their loving marriage. But one afternoon, Claire walks through a circle of standing stones and vanishes into 1743,...

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