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The Naming of the Dead

The Naming of the Dead
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime

A murder has been committed – but as the victim was a rapist, recently released from prison, no one is too concerned about the crime. That is, until Detective Inspector John Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke uncover evidence that...

The Ninth Child

The Ninth Child
  • Author(s): Sally Magnusson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1850s

A spellbinding novel combining Scottish folklore with hidden history, by the Sunday Times bestselling author Sally Magnusson. Loch Katrine waterworks, 1856. A Highland wilderness fast becoming an industrial wasteland. No place for a lady. Isabel Aird is aghast when...

The Nowhere Emporium

The Nowhere Emporium
  • Author(s): Ross MacKenzie
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Winner of the Blue Peter Best Story Award 2016 and the Scottish Children’s Book Award 2016, and the North East Book Award 2015. When the mysterious Nowhere Emporium arrives in Glasgow, orphan Daniel Holmes stumbles upon it quite by...

The Ophelia Murders

The Ophelia Murders
  • Author(s): J M Simpson
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Cairngorms
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Currrent

In a mountain resort in the Scottish Highlands, the body of a young woman is found in a loch, carefully arranged. The murder is vaguely reminiscent of a famous painting. Detective Sergeant Scott Hansen is called in to investigate....

The Ossians

The Ossians
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in Edinburgh, St Andrews, Dundee, Arbroath, Aberdeen, Inverness, Thurso, Ullapool, Kyle of Lochalsh, Fort William and Glasgow Connor is twenty-four: brilliant, broken, and out of control. He’s the swaggering frontman of The Ossians, a Scottish indie band on...

The Oystercatcher Girl

The Oystercatcher Girl
  • Author(s): Gabrielle Barnby
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the medieval splendour of St Magnus Cathedral, three women gather to mourn the untimely passing of Robbie: Robbie’s widow, Tessa; Tessa’s old childhood friend, Christine, and Christine’s unstable and unreliable sister, Lindsay. But all is not as it...

The Panharmonion Chronicles : Times of London

The Panharmonion Chronicles : Times of London
  • Author(s): Henry Chebaane
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, London, Montreal, Ontario, Toronto
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1864 - 2024

WILL HER STORY CHANGE HISTORY? Alex Campbell is a Canadian musician struggling with a conflicted identity, a tragic past and repressed supernatural abilities. Orphaned at a young age, life was never easy on her and is about to get...

The Party House

The Party House
  • Author(s): Lin Anderson
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Party House by Lin Anderson is a deeply atmospheric psychological thriller set in the Scottish Highlands, for fans of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware and Sarah Pearse’s The Sanatorium. Devastated by a recent pandemic brought in by outsiders, the...

The Pearl Thief

The Pearl Thief
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Wein
  • Location(s): Perth and Kinross
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1938

From the internationally acclaimed bestselling author of Code Name Verity comes a stunning new story of pearls, love and murder – a mystery with all the suspense of an Agatha Christie and the intrigue of Downton Abbey. Sixteen-year-old Julie...

The Peat Dead

The Peat Dead
  • Author(s): Allan Martin
  • Location(s): Islay
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day and 1944

Islay. Remote and peaceful. Until a spade finds a human hand, a pointer to a crime. And under the peat, five corpses, unnamed, executed. Inspector Angus Blue builds his team. The evidence leads them to a wartime base. And...

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