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The Continuity Girl

The Continuity Girl
  • Author(s): Patrick Kincaid
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): 1969, 2014

1969. Hollywood descends on a tiny Scottish village for the making of Billy Wilder’s most ambitious picture yet: a sprawling epic detailing The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. But the formidable director and his crew soon come into conflict...

The Cottage in the Highlands

The Cottage in the Highlands
  • Author(s): Julie Shackman
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The brand new seasonal novel from the author of the bestselling book, A Secret Scottish Escape ‘A charming read full of romance and mystery. Delightful’ Woman’s Weekly When Leonie Baxter finds herself out of a job and out of...

The Counterfeit Detective

The Counterfeit Detective
  • Author(s): Simpson Grears
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, London, Pittsburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1900s 1970s

THE COUNTERFEIT DETECTIVE is an epic Gothic literary crime thriller set mostly in Victorian London in 1900 but also in 1970s England, Scotland and the United States. An American professor discovers the diaries of John Ledbury, known as the...

The Cracked Spine

The Cracked Spine
  • Author(s): Paige Shelton
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

No. 1 in the series Wanted: A bold adventurer who wants to travel the world from a comfortable and safe spot behind a desk that has seen the likes of kings and queens, paupers and princes. A humble book...

The Crofter and the Laird

The Crofter and the Laird
  • Author(s): John McPhee
  • Location(s): Colonsay
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1969

In 1969, John McPhee moved his family from New Jersey across the Atlantic to live in the land of his forefathers, the island of Colonsay seventeen square miles of dew and damp twenty-five miles off the coast of Scotland....

The Cromarty Library Circle

The Cromarty Library Circle
  • Author(s): Shona MacLean
  • Location(s): Cromarty
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1831

Cromarty, The Black Isle, 1831. As seagulls shriek and rise on the coastal winds, a circulating library in the bustling port town of Cromarty is meeting for the first time. Ostensibly united by a love of books, the demands...

The Crow Road

The Crow Road
  • Author(s): Iain Banks
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A story full of wonderful characters’ ‘It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach’s Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always...

The Cursing Stone

The Cursing Stone
  • Author(s): Adrian Harvey
  • Location(s): London, Glasgow, The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Fergus Buchanan has led a charmed life: a doting family, a loving sweetheart and the respect of his neighbours. All is as it should be and nothing stands between him and the limitless happiness that is his destiny. But...

The Dead and the Dying

The Dead and the Dying
  • Author(s): Lin Anderson
  • Location(s): Bay of Skaill
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An ancient grave. A modern evil. The Dead and the Dying is a pulse-pounding instalment in the Rhona MacLeod series, perfect for fans of Ian Rankin, Martina Cole and Silent Witness. In the dim morning light, Orkney’s Skaill Bay...

The Dead of Jura

The Dead of Jura
  • Author(s): Allan Martin
  • Location(s): Isle of Jura, Brandenburg, Dublin, Frankfurt an der Oder
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime, Literary Travel
  • Era(s): Modern

(Inspector Angus Blue Book 2) Jura: where the rich and the powerful come to play away from the prying eyes of the press. But when there is an assassination attempt on a Cabinet Minister whiles he’s on his island...

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