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Snowdown at the Old Schoolhouse

Snowdown at the Old Schoolhouse
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Whatever happens this Christmas, they didn’t forecast this! When charismatic and handsome weather presenter Marcus Bowman walks back into Willow Roxburgh’s life three weeks before Christmas, her quiet job as an admin worker at the Old Schoolhouse residential care...

Somewhere Else

Somewhere Else
  • Author(s): Jenni Daiches
  • Location(s): Scotland, World
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Rosa Roshkin is five years old when her family are murdered in a pogrom and she is forced to leave behind everything she knows with only a suitcase of clothes and her father’s violin. An epic generational novel about...

Songs by Dead Girls

Songs by Dead Girls
  • Author(s): Lesley Kelly
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Scotland’s leading virologist goes missing, Mona and Paterson from the Health Enforcement Team are dispatched to London to find him. In a hot and unwelcoming city, Mona has to deal with a boss who isn’t speaking to her,...

Squeaky Clean

Squeaky Clean
  • Author(s): Callum McSorley
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘A manic tale of blood and suds told with laconic humour and warmly engaging characterisation. Callum McSorley is definitely a talent to watch’ Chris Brookmyre Half the Glasgow polis think DI Alison McCoist is bent. The other half just...

Standing in Another Man’s Grave

Standing in Another Man’s Grave
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A series of seemingly random disappearances – stretching back to the millennium. A mother determined to find the truth. A retired cop desperate to get his old life back… It’s been some time since Rebus was forced to retire,...

Star Gazing

Star Gazing
  • Author(s): Linda Gillard
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties, Marianne Fraser lives in Edinburgh in elegant, angry anonymity with her sister, Louisa, a successful novelist. Marianne’s passionate nature finds solace and expression in music, a love...

Starting Over at the Crafty Bee Barn

Starting Over at the Crafty Bee Barn
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

From the sting of heartbreak to the buzz of love Luckless Lilah Clarke needs a big break, but getting caught wrecking a stall at the Glenbriar Fair was not what she had in mind – especially when the man...

Stay Mad, Sweetheart

Stay Mad, Sweetheart
  • Author(s): Heleen Kist
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s a fine line between innocence and guilt. An even finer line between justice and revenge. Shy and sensible Laura prefers the company of her books to the real world – let alone that cesspit online. But when her...

Still Life

Still Life
  • Author(s): Val McDermid
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From internationally bestselling author Val McDermid comes a propulsive new Karen Pirie thriller that delves into a historic missing persons case, fake identities, and art forgery. When a lobster fisherman discovers a dead body in Scotland’s Firth of Forth,...

Stolen Kisses at the Loch View Hotel

Stolen Kisses at the Loch View Hotel
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

One hotel. One week. And a secret that could change everything. Ever-optimistic Briony Dalgleish has watched her dreams evaporate. Now, the only way to save her beautiful hotel in the Scottish Highlands is to sell up. In desperation, she...

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