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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...

The Peppermint Tea Chronicles (44 Scotland Street)

The Peppermint Tea Chronicles (44 Scotland Street)
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Present

It is summer in Scotland Street (as it always is) and for the habitués of Edinburgh’s favourite street some extraordinary adventures lie in waiting. For the impossibly vain Bruce Anderson – he of the clove-scented hair gel – it...

The Piper’s Lament

The Piper’s Lament
  • Author(s): Alex Breck
  • Location(s): Pakistan, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this explosive thriller, Ridge Walker is plunged into an exotic world, 4000 miles away in the humid hills of Northern Pakistan. During his daring quest to rescue a friend he is held captive by merciless terrorists and with...

The Piper’s Promise

The Piper’s Promise
  • Author(s): Alex Breck
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When his best friend Thad is arrested for a series of murders he didn’t commit on the wrong side of the planet, the young Scottish adventurer, Ridge Walker, must find the real killer in order to prove his innocence....

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