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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...

The Devil You Know

The Devil You Know
  • Author(s): Neil Lancaster
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

DS Max Craigie Scottish Crime Thrillers, Book 5 A CASE GONE COLD Six years ago, Beata Dabrowski arranged to meet her lover in Glasgow and was never seen again. There were no leads… until now. AN UNRELIABLE WITNESS Imprisoned...

The Distance Between Us

The Distance Between Us
  • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell
  • Location(s): Hong Kong, London, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gripping, insightful and deft, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Maggie O’Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. It was a Sunday Times Top...

The Doll Makers

The Doll Makers
  • Author(s): Penny Grubb
  • Location(s): London, Argyll and Bute
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Life looks good for Annie Raymond, now an experienced investigator specialising in insurance fraud. Or rather that’s how she spins it. The truth is not so rosy. As she returns to her native Argyll she has no clue how...

The Dream Catcher (Book 1 Dancing for the Devil Trilogy)

The Dream Catcher (Book 1 Dancing for the Devil Trilogy)
  • Author(s): Marie Laval
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Victorian

Book One in the Dancing for the Devil trilogy Can her love heal his haunted heart? Cape Wrath, Scotland, November 1847. Bruce McGunn is a man as brutal and unforgiving as his land. Discharged from the army, he is...

The End of the Valley: Part 1 of The Valley Trilogy

The End of the Valley: Part 1 of The Valley Trilogy
  • Author(s): J D Ferguson
  • Location(s): Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bernese Oberland, Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1980’s / present day

1984: Kate is the golden girl of British ski racing and a leading gold medal hope for the Sarajevo Winter Olympics until a serious knee injury shatters the dream. 2012: Kate is now one of the country’s leading chefs...

The Ending Writes Itself

The Ending Writes Itself
  • Author(s): Evelyn Clarke
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

V. E. Schwab and Cat Clarke team up to pen a locked-room mystery satirizing the publishing industry. Six authors have been invited to the private Scottish island of bestselling author Arthur Fletch. At arrival, they learn that Arthur is...

The Enigma Challenge

The Enigma Challenge
  • Author(s): S C Godfrey
  • Location(s): Paris, Scotland, Spain
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Zoe Wilder has the unflashy, solitary life of an academic, studying ciphers in literature at a California university. When her research takes her to a cryptology conference in Madrid, she’s not expecting to kick off the Enigma Challenge, a...

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