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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...

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...

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): late 20th century

A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict – until John Rebus begins to chip away at the...

Hunter’s Chase

Hunter’s Chase
  • Author(s): Val Penny
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hunter by name – Hunter by nature: DI Hunter Wilson will not rest until Edinburgh is safe. Detective Inspector Hunter Wilson knows there is a new supply of cocaine flooding his city, and he needs to find the source,...

In a House of Lies

In a House of Lies
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke combs through the mistakes of the original investigation. After a decade without answers, it’s time for the truth. But it seems everyone involved with the case is hiding something. None more so than Siobhan’s own...

In Her Shadow

In Her Shadow
  • Author(s): Emma Christie
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bus driver Dave Kellock is a pillar of the community in Portobello, Edinburgh. But he’s got a terrible secret. His past is dragged into the present when an unexpected passenger steps onto his bus: the woman he killed almost...

In the Blink of an Eye

In the Blink of an Eye
  • Author(s): Ali Bacon
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Dundee/St Andrews
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

He had Edinburgh at his feet, but who would be by his side? In 1843, Edinburgh artist David Octavius Hill is commissioned to paint the portraits of 400 ministers of the new Free Church. Only when he meets Robert...

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