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The Last Crossing

The Last Crossing
  • Author(s): Brian McGilloway
  • Location(s): Northern Ireland, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Tony, Hugh and Karen thought they’d seen the last of each other thirty years ago. Half a lifetime has passed and memories have been buried. But when they are asked to reunite – to lay ghosts to rest for...

The Last MacKlenna

The Last MacKlenna
  • Author(s): Katherine Lowry Logan
  • Location(s): Scotland, Kentucky, Napa Valley
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): early 21st century

A multi-layered international romance that will keep you on the edge of your seat. A cat and mouse game between two corporate jet-setters that will take you from Scotland, to Kentucky, to California and back again. Meredith Montgomery, the...

The Last Pearl

The Last Pearl
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): York, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1879

1879, York. Greta Costello must rely on her wits to survive. She finds refuge as a Saturday girl for an old jeweller, Saul Abrahams, and her eye for detail, her long fingers and appreciation of beauty persuade Saul to train...

The Lazarus Charter

The Lazarus Charter
  • Author(s): Tony Bassett
  • Location(s): England, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Bob Shaw is baffled to see a man in a brown coat at a bustling Underground station. Surely it can’t be his friend, the scientist Professor Morley? Morley perished weeks before in a blazing car. Is the man an...

The Less Dead

The Less Dead
  • Author(s): Denise Mina
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margo’s adoption. To this day, Susan’s killer...

The Liberation of Bella McCaa

The Liberation of Bella McCaa
  • Author(s): Catherine Aitken
  • Location(s): Dundee/St Andrews
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A heartwarming page-turner, laced with humour, about making change, finding love and taking second chances. When Bella McCaa is released from ten years as sole carer to a very demanding mother, she’s desperate to leave Dundee and pick up...

The Liberation of Bella McCaa

The Liberation of Bella McCaa
  • Author(s): Catherine Aitken
  • Location(s): Broughty Ferry
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Bella McCaa is released from ten years as sole carer to a very demanding mother, she’s desperate to leave Dundee and pick up the threads of her once high-flying career in London. Fifty-two isn’t too late to start...

The Library Murders

The Library Murders
  • Author(s): M R Mackenzie
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alyssa Clark is about to find out that reading really can be murder. She thought her new job in Thornhill Library would be safe and uneventful. Boring, even. But on her first day at work, a masked gunman storms...

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
  • Author(s): Emma Knight
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, London, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pen and Alice, childhood best friends from Toronto, are in their first year at the University of Edinburgh. Each has come to the city for her own reasons. Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something...

The Lighthouse by the Sea

The Lighthouse by the Sea
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Isle of Barra
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

His love might be the light she’s looking for After a string of disasters, music teacher Lottie Ashford is out of options. So when her well-meaning mother suggests she restore an old family property – a crumbling lighthouse on...

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