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DON’T CRY, DARLING

DON’T CRY, DARLING
  • Author(s): Robert McNeill
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Luck runs out for three poker players when a gunman calmly shoots them dead. DI Jack Knox quickly establishes that the intended target, the leader of a bank heist many years before, has slipped the net. But his team...

DON’T CRY, DARLING

DON’T CRY, DARLING
  • Author(s): Robert McNeill
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Newcastleton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Luck runs out for three poker players when a gunman calmly shoots them dead. DI Jack Knox quickly establishes that the intended target, the leader of a bank heist many years before, has slipped the net. But his team...

Dragonfly in Amber

Dragonfly in Amber
  • Author(s): Diana Gabaldon
  • Location(s): Paris, Edinburgh, Inverness, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Time Slip
  • Era(s): 1740's and 1960's

This follow-up to the author’s first book ‘Outlander’ (‘Cross-stitch’ in the UK) visits the 1960’s before returning to time travelling English nurse Claire and Jaime, her Scottish warrior husband, in 18th century Edinburgh, Paris, and the Scottish Highlands. This...

Emily Noble’s Disgrace

Emily Noble’s Disgrace
  • Author(s): Mary Paulson-Ellis
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

When trauma cleaner Essie Pound makes a gruesome discovery in the derelict Edinburgh boarding house she is sent to clean, it brings her into contact with a young policewoman, Emily Noble, who has her own reasons to solve the...

Even Dogs in the Wild

Even Dogs in the Wild
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Retirement doesn’t suit John Rebus. He wasn’t made for hobbies, holidays or home improvements. Being a cop is in his blood. So when DI Siobhan Clarke asks for his help on a case, Rebus doesn’t need long to consider...

Fault Lines

Fault Lines
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

Brilliantly constructed speculative crime fiction A classic whodunit Dark psychological suspense Doug Johnstone returns with his most explosive and original thriller yet… A little lie… a seismic secret… and the cracks are beginning to show… In a reimagined contemporary...

Festival Fireworks

Festival Fireworks
  • Author(s): Ann Burnett
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Twenty-seven year old Aussie, Jill Kennedy, has arrived in Edinburgh during the festival and staying in her aunt’s empty flat. Immediately, she crosses swords with her new neighbour, Andrew MacCallum-Blair. To make things worse, she discovers he’s her boss...

FICKLE FORTUNES

FICKLE FORTUNES
  • Author(s): Traude Ailinger
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A woman’s fatal fall at a local beauty spot raises the suspicions of Edinburgh police Sarah Cartwright is on her daily jog when she falls from the iconic rocks of Salisbury Crags. When DI Russell McCord arrives at the...

Finding Tess: A Viv Fraser Mystery

Finding Tess:  A Viv Fraser Mystery
  • Author(s): V Clifford
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Viv Fraser the intelligent, sassy, sleuth. In this, the second of the Viv Fraser Mysteries, catch up with fast-moving hair-cutting sleuth Viv Fraser as she wrestles with the deceits of people she thought she knew. She goes in search...

Fleshmarket Close

Fleshmarket Close
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime

An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme. Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems: his old police station has closed for business, and his masters want him to retire. But Rebus is...

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