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The Summer Job

The Summer Job
  • Author(s): Lizzy Dent
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Have you ever imagined running away from your life? Well Birdy Finch didn’t just imagine it. She did it. Which might’ve been an error. And the life she’s run into? Her best friend, Heather’s. The only problem is, she...

The Surfacing

The Surfacing
  • Author(s): Claire Ackroyd
  • Location(s): Loch Ness
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

It’s twelve years since teenager Peter Ferguson drowned in Loch Ness―on the same night that Stephanie, her mother and her sister, Aurelie, were camping on its shores. In the shocking aftermath, their family and life as they knew it...

The Things We Do To Our Friends

The Things We Do To Our Friends
  • Author(s): Heather Darwent
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, France
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Things We Learn When We’re Dead

The Things We Learn When We’re Dead
  • Author(s): Charlie Laidlaw
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Crete, East Lothian
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Things We Learn When We’re Dead is a modern fairytale of love and loss. It’s about the subtle ways in which we change, and how the small decisions that we make can have profound and unintended consequences. On...

The Trap

The Trap
  • Author(s): Ava Glass
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

How far would you go to catch a killer? This is the question UK agent Emma Makepeace must ask herself when she is sent to Edinburgh for the upcoming global G7 Summit. The Russians are in town and Emma...

The Trials of Marjorie Crowe

The Trials of Marjorie Crowe
  • Author(s): C S Robertson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery

How do you solve a murder when everyone thinks you’re guilty? Marjorie Crowe lives in Kilgoyne, Scotland. The locals put her age at somewhere between 55 and 70. They think she’s divorced or a lifelong spinster; that she used...

The Trowie Mound Murders

The Trowie Mound Murders
  • Author(s): Marsali Taylor
  • Location(s): Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

When a visiting yachting couple go missing from the Shetland oil capital of Brae, sailing skipper Cass Lynch overcomes her mistrust of the land world to ask for help from her old adversary DI Gavin Macrae. He discovers a...

The Two Roberts

The Two Roberts
  • Author(s): Damian Barr
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Ayrshire, England, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

Scotland, 1933. Bobby MacBryde is on his way. After years grafting at Lees Boot Factory, he’s off to the Glasgow School of Art, to his future. On his first day he will meet another Robert, a quiet man with...

The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill

The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill
  • Author(s): C S Robertson
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Death is not the end. For Grace McGill, it’s only the beginning. When people die alone and undiscovered, it’s her job to clean up what’s left behind – whether it’s clutter, bodily remains or dark secrets. When an old...

The Unquiet Heart

The Unquiet Heart
  • Author(s): Kaite Welsh
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Sarah Gilchrist has no intention of marrying her dull fiancé Miles, the man her family hope will restore her reputation and put an end to her dreams of becoming a doctor, but when he is arrested for a murder...

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