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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...

The Dead of Winter

The Dead of Winter
  • Author(s): Stuart MacBride
  • Location(s): Aberdeen, Cairngorms
  • Genre(s): Crime, Noir, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It was supposed to be an easy job. All Detective Constable Edward Reekie had to do was pick up a dying prisoner from HMP Grampian and deliver him somewhere to live out his last few months in peace. From...

The Deadly Spark

The Deadly Spark
  • Author(s): Roxie Key
  • Location(s): Brighton, Plockton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2020s

Deadly fires are lighting up Brighton, and the latest case is alarmingly close to home for DC Eve Starling. The blaze was deliberately set, and a mother and daughter didn’t make it out of the smoke. Eve’s investigation takes...

The Devil Upstairs

The Devil Upstairs
  • Author(s): Anthony O'Neill
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Current times

In a quiet corner of Edinburgh, Cat Thomas is going through hell. She’s tried everything. He respects nothing. If your neighbour was making your life hell… Would you call upon the devil? Cat Thomas, a brilliant fraud investigator, has...

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