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The Body in the Bracken

The Body in the Bracken
  • Author(s): Marsali Taylor
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Cass Lynch has been persuaded to spend Christmas in the Highlands with her friend DI Gavin Macrae, but their romantic walk by the loch is cut short when they find a skeleton among the bracken. Back home in Shetland,...

The Bone Mother

The Bone Mother
  • Author(s): Suzy Aspley
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

Martha Strangeways has settled into a quiet life in Strathbran, after the horrific events that traumatised the village a year earlier. But all this is turned upside down when her friend at Glasgow CID, DI Derek Summers, calls on...

The Bonnie Dead

The Bonnie Dead
  • Author(s): Andrew Raymond
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

DCI Lomond Crime Thrillers Book 1 A stolen child. A killer stalking the streets of Glasgow. A troubled detective running out of time. Five years ago, DCI John Lomond led the search for notorious Glasgow child-killer ‘The Sandman’, until...

The Book of I

The Book of I
  • Author(s): David Greig
  • Location(s): Iona
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 9th Century

A brilliant Scottish debut, shortlisted for the Highland Book Prize and the Bookmark Book Festival Book of the Year.   The year is 825 CE. In the aftermath of a vicious attack by raiders from the north, an unlikely trio...

The Bookshop of New Beginnings

The Bookshop of New Beginnings
  • Author(s): Jen Mouat
  • Location(s): Wigtown
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s always been Emily Cotton’s dream to own her own bookshop. But sitting among shelves of haphazardly stacked books in a damp old barn, the reality feels a little different. Kate Vincent hasn’t been back home in six years....

The Bookshop of Second Chances

The Bookshop of Second Chances
  • Author(s): Jackie Fraser
  • Location(s): Scottish Lowlands
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in the Scottish Lowlands Set in a charming little Scottish town, The Bookshop of Second Chances is the most uplifting story you’ll read this year! Shortlisted for the RNA Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel Award 2021. Thea’s having a...

The Bookshop on the Corner

The Bookshop on the Corner
  • Author(s): Jenny Colgan
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Nina is a literary matchmaker. Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion… and also her job. Or at least it was. Until yesterday, she was a librarian in the hectic city. But now the job she...

The Bookshop on the Shore

The Bookshop on the Shore
  • Author(s): Jenny Colgan
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern Day

Dreams start here… Zoe, a professional child care worker, and single mother to Hari, 4, who has selective mutism, is sinking beneath the waves trying to cope by herself in London. Then her ex sister-in-law suggests she move to...

The Broken Horizon

The Broken Horizon
  • Author(s): Catherine M Byrne
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1900s

Chrissie Reid, a young battered wife living on a small Orkney island in 1906 finally turns on her husband, Jack. After a particularly brutal attack, she is driven to offering him poison. With no memory of that night, she...

The Burning House

The Burning House
  • Author(s): Neil Spring
  • Location(s): Loch Ness
  • Genre(s): Horror, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Boleskine House on the shores of Loch Ness has remained empty for years. Its dark history and rumours of hauntings – and worse – have scared all prospective buyers away. But estate agent Clara desperately needs to make this...

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