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Tell Me Where You Are

Tell Me Where You Are
  • Author(s): Moira Forsyth
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Frances is doing fine; she has her life sorted. Then comes the phone call from Alec, the husband who left her for her younger sister Susan, thirteen years ago. Susan has disappeared, and Alec wants her daughter Kate to...

TERMINUS

TERMINUS
  • Author(s): Pete Brassett
  • Location(s): Scotland, Ayrshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

Detective Munro is on the back foot when a dangerous killer always seems to be one step ahead. Having been the victim of a hit and run accident, and despite being black and blue, DI Munro wastes no time...

Terrible With Raisins

Terrible With Raisins
  • Author(s): Lynne McVernon
  • Location(s): Symi, England, Florida, Greece, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21C

There’s a big birthday looming. Clair tries hiding from it on the Aegean island of Symi, Greece. Inevitably it catches up with her. But so do a couple of possibilities, interesting, attractive ones…Encouraged, she departs the Greek idyll to...

That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz

That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz
  • Author(s): Malachy Tallack
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1957 and contemporary

1957. Sonny is working on a whaling ship in the South Atlantic, reckoning with the most vicious storms he has ever seen. It’s a brutal way to make a living. When he finally returns to his Shetland home to...

The 45% Hangover

The 45% Hangover
  • Author(s): Stuart MacBride
  • Location(s): Aberdeen
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 2014

A brilliantly twisty, 80-page novella from the No. 1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series. Including an extract from his new Logan novel, THE MISSING AND THE DEAD. It’s the night of the big Referendum, and all Acting...

The Accidental Recluse

The Accidental Recluse
  • Author(s): Tom McCulloch
  • Location(s): Japan, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Johnny Jackson used to be a famous film director, but his brother Duke was a hero. Just turned 75, JJ is heading home from exile in Japan for one last blockbuster and a civic honouring. But home is where...

The Accused

The Accused
  • Author(s): Owen Mullen
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2021

When Private Investigator Charlie Cameron agrees to take on a cold case, he is drawn back into Glasgow’s dark underworld… Glasgow PI Charlie Cameron knew Kim Rafferty was bad news the moment they met. Desperate people always spelled trouble...

The Adventures of Roobie & Radley and The Christmas campervan Rescue

The Adventures of Roobie & Radley and The Christmas campervan Rescue
  • Author(s): Catherine Brown
  • Location(s): West Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Modern day set in West Highlands of Scotland

It’s almost Christmas in Westie Green and the snowflakes are falling. Nestled deep within the Highlands of Scotland lives an enchanting community of West Highland Terriers, the Westie Hutters. Roobie & Radley and their pet piglet Disco live at...

The Art of Dying

The Art of Dying
  • Author(s): Ambrose Parry
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1850

Edinburgh, 1850. Despite being at the forefront of modern medicine, hordes of patients are dying all across the city, with doctors finding their remedies powerless. But it is not just the deaths that dismay the esteemed Dr James Simpson...

The Bad Fire

The Bad Fire
  • Author(s): Campbell Armstrong
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Commit a sin and you’ll go to the Bad Fire… That’s what Eddie Mallon was told when he was growing up in Glasgow. Now he’s about to discover that even after all these years, the fire never goes out....

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