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My Lady’s Secrets

My Lady’s Secrets
  • Author(s): Katy Moran
  • Location(s): London, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Turn of 19th Century

Regency England When rebellious aristocrat Cressida and Lord Greville parted ways, they swore never to meet again. Their short marriage had already descended into bitter estrangement, destroyed by scandal and betrayal. Years later, Greville is a soldier in the...

NEAR MISS

NEAR MISS
  • Author(s): Traude Ailinger
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A fun, twisty woman sleuth mystery set in Edinburgh! Fashion writer Amy Thornton has the fright of her life when she narrowly avoids being hit by a car. The driver was being chased, and swerved to miss her only...

News of the Dead

News of the Dead
  • Author(s): James Robertson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Multiple eras

Deep in the mountains of north-east Scotland lies Glen Conach, a place of secrets and memories, fable and history. In particular, it holds the stories of three different eras, separated by centuries yet linked by location, by an ancient...

Night Falls on Ardnamurchan: The Twilight of a Crofting Family

Night Falls on Ardnamurchan: The Twilight of a Crofting Family
  • Author(s): Alasdair Maclean
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s

SINCE ITS FIRST PUBLICATION in 1984, Night Falls in Ardnamurchan has become a classic account of the life and death of a Highland community. The author weaves his own humorous and perceptive account of crofting with extracts from his...

Night Falls, Still Missing

Night Falls, Still Missing
  • Author(s): Helen Callaghan
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a cold, windswept night, Fiona arrives on a tiny, isolated island in Orkney. She accepted her old friend’s invitation with some trepidation – her relationship with Madison has never been plain sailing. But when she approaches Madison’s cottage,...

Night Flight to Paris

Night Flight to Paris
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1940s

It is once again up to American markswoman Kate Rees to take the shot that just might win–or lose–World War II, in the followup to national bestseller Three Hours in Paris. Three missions. Two cities. One shot to win...

Nobody’s Baby But Mine

Nobody’s Baby But Mine
  • Author(s): Gloria Silk
  • Location(s): London, Aberdeen
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“Gripping, romantic, sensuous and astute.” “New women’s fiction that touches all parts of our needs, wants and the possibilities.” Can Rachel and James find their way back into each other’s hearts after tasting temptation and facing devastating news? How...

Noughts and Crosses

Noughts and Crosses
  • Author(s): Robert McNeill
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After powerful investors lose big, investigating a financial advisor’s murder won’t be child’s play for a strained detective. DI Knox’s Edinburgh team are busy dealing with a series of violent rapes when a man is found murdered on a...

Of Stone and Sky

Of Stone and Sky
  • Author(s): Merryn Glover
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After Highland shepherd Colvin Munro disappears, a mysterious trail of his possessions is found in the Cairngorm mountains. Writing the eulogy for his memorial years later, his foundling-sister Mo seeks to discover why he vanished. Younger brother Sorley is...

Old Sins Never Die

Old Sins Never Die
  • Author(s): Danielle Collins
  • Location(s): Scotland, London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Never look back…Treason is deadly While in the Lake District, journalist Emmeline Kirby and jewel thief/insurance investigator Gregory Longdon overhear a man attempting to hire international assassin Hugh Carstairs, a MI5 agent who went rogue. They race back to London to...

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