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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...

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....

Black and Blue

Black and Blue
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

In the 1960s, the infamous Bible John terrorised Scotland when he murdered three women, taking three souvenirs. Thirty years later, a copycat is at work, dubbed Johnny Bible. DI John Rebus’s unconventional methods have got him in trouble before...

Bright Sparks

Bright Sparks
  • Author(s): Traude Ailinger
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A suspicious death ignites a blame game within a family full of secrets… When an Edinburgh villa goes up in flames, grumpy DI Russell McCord is called in to investigate. Someone died in the fire, and it looks like...

Bury Them Deep

Bury Them Deep
  • Author(s): James Oswald
  • Location(s): Scotland, Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a member of the Police Scotland team fails to clock-in for work, concern for her whereabouts is immediate… and the discovery of her burnt-out car in remote woodland to the south of Edinburgh sets off a desperate search...

Changer

Changer
  • Author(s): Matt Gemmell
  • Location(s): Munich, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Techno-thriller: DESTINY CAN BE CHANGED. Jutland, Denmark: a billionaire industrialist seizes control of a top-secret project that the European Defence Agency calls Destiny, manipulating it for his own ends. Edinburgh, Scotland: physicist Neil Aldridge’s life is saved by an...

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