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- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Recently bereaved, George Newhouse, is an art historian and newly appointed curator at the National Gallery who becomes increasingly obsessed with a lost minor Dutch masterpiece, The Blue Horse by Van Doelenstraat. The painting’s provenance is disputed and many...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Judy Taylor married the first man who asked her. She lives in the neighbourhood where she spent her uneventful childhood. She still has the same friends she first met in primary school. But everything she once knew is about...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, East Lothian, Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Moving from North Berwick in East Lothian, Scotland, to Edinburgh and off to the States, Roy tells of his lifelong obsession with film. Roy is a film fan. He loves the cinema. What happened that turned his world inside...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When the body of a half-clothed woman is discovered in an Edinburgh park, a murder investigation is launched. The victim has not been reported missing and there are few clues to her identity. Soon after, the naked corpse of...
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
- Location(s): Edinburgh, India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
For those of us who know Edinburgh, this is a wonderful book that takes the reader past all the familiar streets and shops, and this really gives pleasure. Isabel Dalhousie is an academic, and much given to musing about...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Joseph Staines, an unemployed chef, has left Edinburgh with the tallybook of the late debt collector, Isa Stoddart. Her son Lachie thinks Stainsie killed her, but Lachie has apparently committed suicide. To his surprise, Stainsie is the sole beneficiary...