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A Fine House in Trinity

A Fine House in Trinity
  • Author(s): Lesley Kelly
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Joseph Staines, an unemployed chef, has left Edinburgh with the tallybook of the late debt collector, Isa Stoddart. Her son Lachie thinks Stainsie killed her, but Lachie has apparently committed suicide. To his surprise, Stainsie is the sole beneficiary...

A Heart Full of Headstones

A Heart Full of Headstones
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

John Rebus stands accused: the once legendary detective is on trial, facing the rest of his life behind bars. How does a hero turn villain? Or have times changed, and the rules with them? Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke tackles...

A Life Unexpected

A Life Unexpected
  • Author(s): Alison Ragsdale
  • Location(s): Dundee/St Andrews, Braemar, Edinburgh, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current time

This book won a 2018, IPPY Bronze Medal in the Popular Fiction category Eve Carruthers is caught off guard when her newly married daughter, Jess, asks if the cystic fibrosis gene runs in the family. Eve must admit that...

A Song for the Dark Times

A Song for the Dark Times
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): modern

When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it’s not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days. Rebus fears the worst – and knows from his lifetime in the police that...

A VIEW TO MURDER

A VIEW TO MURDER
  • Author(s): Robert McNeill
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Cases come in thick and fast for the veteran crime solver… A student meets an untimely demise when she falls from Salisbury Crags in Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park. Was she pushed? Whilst DI Jack Knox is picking through the lies...

A Year of Light and Shadows

A Year of Light and Shadows
  • Author(s): Helena Fairfax
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the heat of the Mediterranean…. When the Princess of Montverrier goes missing, Lizzie Smith takes on the acting job of her life. Alone and surrounded by intrigue in the Royal Palace, she relies on her quiet bodyguard, Léon....

After You’d Gone

After You’d Gone
  • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s and looking back

AFTER YOU’D GONE is the groundbreaking debut novel from the Costa-Award winning Maggie O’Farrell, author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE and I AM, I AM, I AM. It is a stunning, best-selling novel of wrenching love and grief....

Becoming Lizzie Potts

Becoming Lizzie Potts
  • Author(s): V Clifford
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lizzie Potts is an intelligent sassy woman who’s led a charmed life . . . up until now! Cracks are appearing in her love life. Her steady job and her family relations are not what they seemed. A long-buried...

Being Tommy Boronovski: A London Suspense Thriller

Being Tommy Boronovski: A London Suspense Thriller
  • Author(s): A J Sendall
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Norwich
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000

When Mike Bray is grabbed off the street on his way home on an ordinary Friday night, his world is turned inside out. Coerced by the head of a South London crime gang to impersonate low-level criminal Tommy Boronovski,...

Beyond Cutting: A Viv Fraser Mystery

Beyond Cutting: A Viv Fraser Mystery
  • Author(s): V Clifford
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An intelligent, sassy PI If you ever thought the life of a hairdresser was tranquil, then think again. Viv Fraser Ph.D and stylist to Edinburgh’s establishment has a double life as an investigative journalist. She’s smart, spirited and witty....

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