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The Blue Horse

The Blue Horse
  • Author(s): Philip Miller
  • 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...

The Emergence of Judy Taylor

The Emergence of Judy Taylor
  • Author(s): Angela Jackson
  • 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...

The Man in the Seventh Row

The Man in the Seventh Row
  • Author(s): Brian Pendreigh
  • 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...

The Road To Hell

The Road To Hell
  • Author(s): Gillian Galbraith
  • 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

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
  • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The Sunday Philosophy Club

The Sunday Philosophy Club
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • 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...

A Certain Chemistry

A Certain Chemistry
  • Author(s): Mil Millington
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Is this love or just oxytocin? The brilliant second novel by the bestselling author of Things my Girlfriend and I Have Argued About. Tom Cartwright is a ghost-writer: eking out a living in Edinburgh, he is always ready to...

A Corruption of Blood

A Corruption of Blood
  • Author(s): Ambrose Parry
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1850

A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 3 Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry. Dr Will Raven is a man seldom shocked by human remains, but even he is disturbed by the contents of a package washed up...

A Fine House in Trinity

A Fine House in Trinity
  • Author(s): Lesley Kelly
  • 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...

A Heart Full of Headstones

A Heart Full of Headstones
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

John Rebus stands accused: the once legendary detective is on trial, facing the rest of his life behind bars. How does a hero turn villain? Or have times changed, and the rules with them? Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke tackles...

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