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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...

The Enigma Game

The Enigma Game
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Wein
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2, 1940s

Windyedge Airfield, Scotland. World War II. Louisa Adair, newly orphaned and shunned for her mixed-race heritage, has come here to the edge of the world to look after an old lady with a dark past. Jamie Beaufort-Stuart is a...

The Enigma of Garlic

The Enigma of Garlic
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s the most anticipated event of the decade: Big Lou and Fat Bob’s wedding and everyone is invited! After a wonderful day, Big Lou crashes back down to earth and finds that she is a victim of her own...

The Falls

The Falls
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime

A student has gone missing in Edinburgh. She’s not just any student, though, but the daughter of well-to-do and influential bankers. There’s almost nothing to go on until DI John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there’s more...

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