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  • Author(s): Craig Robertson
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Glasgow is being terrorised by a serial killer the media have nicknamed The Cutter. The murders have left the police baffled. There seems to be neither rhyme nor reason behind the killings; no kind of pattern or motive; an...

Red Bones (Shetland #3)

Red Bones (Shetland #3)
  • Author(s): Ann Cleeves
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When an elderly woman is shot in what appears to be a tragic accident, Shetland detective Jimmy Perez is called to investigate the mystery. The sparse landscape and the emptiness of the sea have bred a fierce and secretive...

River Clyde

River Clyde
  • Author(s): Simone Buchholz, Rachel Ward (translator)
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mired in grief after tragic recent events, state prosecutor Chastity Riley escapes to Scotland, lured to the birthplace of her great-great-grandfather by a mysterious letter suggesting she has inherited a house. In Glasgow, she meets Tom, the ex-lover of...

Shuggie Bain

Shuggie Bain
  • Author(s): Douglas Stuart
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid...

Sleep When You’re Dead

Sleep When You’re Dead
  • Author(s): Jude O'Reilly
  • Location(s): The Hebrides, London, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In thirty-six hours, thousands of innocent people will die. There’s not a second to waste. And no time for sleep… Michael North has a bullet lodged in his brain which could kill him any second. That makes him the...

Small Fires

Small Fires
  • Author(s): Ronnie Turner
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Evil runs through this cursed island And these wicked sisters are about to make it burn… When sisters Lily and Della Pedley are persecuted for the shocking murder of their parents, they flee from their home in Cornwall to...

Still Water

Still Water
  • Author(s): Rebecca Pert
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s-modern day

‘BEAUTIFUL AND BRUTAL…A BREATHTAKING DEBUT’ JOANNA CANNON A beautifully written atmospheric story of trauma, grief and redemption, Still Water is a debut from a bright new voice in literary fiction. When Jane Douglas returns to the Shetland Islands, she...

Sunset Song

Sunset Song
  • Author(s): Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Young Chris Guthrie lives a brutal life in the harsh landscape of northern Scotland, torn between her passion for the land, duty to her family and her love of books. When her mother, broken by repeated childbirths, takes her...

The Good Left Undone

The Good Left Undone
  • Author(s): Adriana Trigiani
  • Location(s): Viareggio, Marseilles (Marseille), Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Domenica Cabrelli had two great loves of her life. The first, her childhood sweetheart: a boy from the same small, sun-drenched Italian town of Viareggio. A romance born out of yearning and shared history; over before it really had...

The Keening

The Keening
  • Author(s): Margaret Pinard
  • Location(s): Isle of Mull, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

The Keening takes you to a rapidly changing Scotland and into the lives of the MacLean family. Her vivid depictions of life and landscape on the Isle of Mull and in urbanizing and industrializing Scotland allow you to be...

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