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The Burning Library

The Burning Library
  • Author(s): Gilly Macmillan
  • Location(s): Dundee/St Andrews
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

For over a century two rival organisations of women have gone to deadly lengths to secure a precious scrap of fraying embroidery in the hopes of finding the original medieval manuscript from which it was torn. There’s the Order...

The Burnings

The Burnings
  • Author(s): Naomi Kelsey
  • Location(s): North Berwick
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1580s

Nothing scares men like witchcraft . . . 1589. Scottish housemaid Geillis and Danish courtier Margareta lead opposite lives, but they both know one thing: when a man cries “witch”, no woman is safe. Yet when the marriage of...

The Calgary Chessman

The Calgary Chessman
  • Author(s): Yvonne Marjot
  • Location(s): Scotland, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Cas Longmore lives on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, a long way away from her home in New Zealand. She finds a mysterious object hidden in the sand at Calgary Bay and her search to find out more...

The Canary Keeper

The Canary Keeper
  • Author(s): Clare Carson
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

They will see me hang for this. London, 1855. In the grey mist of the early morning a body is dumped on the shore of the Thames by a boatman in a metal canoe. Talk soon spreads of the...

The Case of the Hydegild Sacrifice

The Case of the Hydegild Sacrifice
  • Author(s): David Cairns of Finavon
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 19th Century

(Major Gask & Erroll Rait Mysteries Book 4) Uncover the secrets history tried to bury… The Case of the Hydegild Sacrifice thrusts readers into the shadowy aftermath of one of America’s darkest moments—the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865....

The Castle in the Bay

The Castle in the Bay
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Isle of Barra
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

What if the castle has the key to mend their broken hearts? After a miserable few years, fun-loving Iona McKenzie tossed her corporate job to the wind, swore off long-term relationships, and escaped to the Hebridean island of Barra...

The Celtic Prince

The Celtic Prince
  • Author(s): Suellen Ocean
  • Location(s): England, France, Jerusalem, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Medieval

Females are wildly available to Jonathan, after all, he’s the prince. But when a strange girl, Ellen, wanders into his forest, he follows his instincts and his heart. However, she’s left behind an unfinished past and a man who...

The Chessmen

The Chessmen
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Isle of Lewis
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

THE NEW START. Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island. THE OLD FRIEND. This mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill...

The Chessmen Thief

The Chessmen Thief
  • Author(s): Barbara Henderson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Viking

Win. Lose. Survive. I was the boy with a plan. Now I am the boy with nothing. From the moment 12-year-old Kylan hatches a plan to escape from his Norse captors, and return to Scotland to find his mother,...

The Children of Castle Rock

The Children of Castle Rock
  • Author(s): Natasha Farrant
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Alice Mistlethwaite is shipped off to boarding school in Scotland it’s nothing like she imagines. Run by the mysterious Major, there are no punishments and the students are more likely to be taught about body painting or extreme...

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