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Black and Blue

Black and Blue
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

In the 1960s, the infamous Bible John terrorised Scotland when he murdered three women, taking three souvenirs. Thirty years later, a copycat is at work, dubbed Johnny Bible. DI John Rebus’s unconventional methods have got him in trouble before...

Bright Sparks

Bright Sparks
  • Author(s): Traude Ailinger
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A suspicious death ignites a blame game within a family full of secrets… When an Edinburgh villa goes up in flames, grumpy DI Russell McCord is called in to investigate. Someone died in the fire, and it looks like...

Bury Them Deep

Bury Them Deep
  • Author(s): James Oswald
  • Location(s): Scotland, Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a member of the Police Scotland team fails to clock-in for work, concern for her whereabouts is immediate… and the discovery of her burnt-out car in remote woodland to the south of Edinburgh sets off a desperate search...

Changer

Changer
  • Author(s): Matt Gemmell
  • Location(s): Munich, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Techno-thriller: DESTINY CAN BE CHANGED. Jutland, Denmark: a billionaire industrialist seizes control of a top-secret project that the European Defence Agency calls Destiny, manipulating it for his own ends. Edinburgh, Scotland: physicist Neil Aldridge’s life is saved by an...

City of Ghosts

City of Ghosts
  • Author(s): Victoria Schwab
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn’t like to think about it), she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead . . . and enter the world of spirits....

Confession to Murder

Confession to Murder
  • Author(s): Robert McNeill
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Edinburgh detectives hunt a man with an instinct to kill… After wrangling with his conscience, a priest approaches Edinburgh police and reports that a man confessed to killing a young woman. During a passionate petting session with the girl,...

Dead Of Night

Dead Of Night
  • Author(s): Robert McNeill
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A French philanderer gets his comeuppance in Edinburgh, but which, if any, of his spurned lovers sealed his fate? A college lecturer is killed and dumped in the Union Canal. When DI Jack Knox investigates his past, he discovers...

Dead Souls

Dead Souls
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime

Stalking a poisoner at the local zoo, Inspector John Rebus comes across a paedophile taking pictures of children. When the social workers claim he is there for legitimate educational reasons, Rebus is faced with a dilemma – should he...

Deception is the Old Black: A Viv Fraser Mystery

Deception is the Old Black: A Viv Fraser Mystery
  • Author(s): V Clifford
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Deception is the Old Black, Scottish super sleuth Viv Fraser is faced with a new investigation. When top brass of the National Task Force, summon her to root out a mole within their ranks, she realises she’ll be...

Digging up the Dead: A Viv Fraser Mystery

Digging up the Dead: A Viv Fraser Mystery
  • Author(s): V Clifford
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Viv Fraser, hairdresser, super-sleuth and resident of Scotland’s capital city retreats to a cottage in the country for some well earned R&R. She quickly discovers that walking the dog and staring at rolling pasture makes her tetchy. Enter DI...

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