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Shots Fired

Shots Fired
  • Author(s): Ian Robinson
  • Location(s): London, Northern Ireland, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2021

Suspenseful and exciting! A specialist murder team track a deadly weapon. When a ballistics report shows that a gun used in a Glasgow shooting is the same as the one used in a London murder three years previously, DI...

Silent Bones

Silent Bones
  • Author(s): Val McDermid
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When torrential rain causes a landslide on a motorway in Scotland, it reveals a crime scene: someone hid a body in the tarmac eleven years before. Journalist Sam Nimmo had been the prime suspect in the murder of his...

Single to Edinburgh

Single to Edinburgh
  • Author(s): Diane M Dickson
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Present Day

Lost in grief after the loss of her child Jenny finds herself on an unexpected Journey. With the help of a kind stranger, she begins to find her way back to a fulfilling life. But, that might mean she...

Sisters at the Edge of the World

Sisters at the Edge of the World
  • Author(s): Ailish Sinclair
  • Location(s): Aberdeenshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Iron Age

When Morragh speaks to another person for the very first time, she has no idea that he is an invader in her land. What she does next constitutes a huge betrayal of her people, threatening her closest relationships and...

Sky Hawk

Sky Hawk
  • Author(s): Gill Lewis
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

When Callum and his friends find Iona on Callum’s farm they try to chase her back into the village. But Iona runs from them up into the hills. It is late and dark and snow lies in the mountain...

Sleep

Sleep
  • Author(s): C L Taylor
  • Location(s): Inner Hebrides, Rum
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

All Anna wants is to be able to sleep. But crushing insomnia, terrifying night terrors and memories of that terrible night are making it impossible. If only she didn’t feel so guilty… To escape her past, Anna takes a...

Sleep Like The Dead

Sleep Like The Dead
  • Author(s): Alex Gray
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No. 8 in the Detective Lorimer Series No one rests in peace. There’s a hitman in Glasgow: unpaid and angry, he’s decided to settle his own debts… Elsewhere in the city, Marianne Brogan can’t sleep. She’s plagued by a...

Sleeper on the Mountain

Sleeper on the Mountain
  • Author(s): Richard J Sutton
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fantasy, Fiction

One stone. Two worlds. A destiny that spans centuries. Erik never expected a simple hike near Loch Ness to change his life. But when he discovers a mysterious stone pendant once owned by St. Columba, everything shifts. Suddenly, he’s...

Smoke on the Water

Smoke on the Water
  • Author(s): Rae Stewart
  • Location(s): Loch Ness
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

MURDER, MAYHEM – AND MONSTERS Frank Fisher thinks he’s made it. The dodgy businessman is finally on the verge of finishing his controversial multi-million pound NessieWorld monster theme park on the banks of Loch Ness. It will bring him...

Smoke on the Wind

Smoke on the Wind
  • Author(s): Kelli Estes
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Dual timeline; present day and 1801

In the magnificent Scottish Highlands, two devoted mothers separated by centuries discover a haunting connection in a gripping novel by the USA Today bestselling author of The Girl Who Wrote in Silk. Struggling with the tragic end of her...

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