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Breakers

Breakers
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A toxic family … a fight for survival… Seventeen-year-old Tyler lives in one of Edinburgh’s most deprived areas. Coerced into robbing rich people’s homes by his bullying older siblings, he’s also trying to care for his little sister and...

Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness

Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness
  • Author(s): Alexandra Fuller
  • Location(s): East Africa, Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness tells the story of the author’s mother, Nicola Fuller. Nicola Fuller and her husband were a glamorous and optimistic couple and East Africa lay before them with the promise of all its...

Cold Granite

Cold Granite
  • Author(s): Stuart MacBride
  • Location(s): Aberdeen
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s DS Logan McRae’s first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn’t get much worse. Three-year-old David Reid’s body is discovered in a ditch: strangled, mutilated and a long time dead....

Cross Stitch

Cross Stitch
  • Author(s): Diana Gabaldon
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1700s, mid 1900s

CLAIRE RANDALL IS LEADING A DOUBLE LIFE. SHE HAS A HUSBAND IN ONE CENTURY – AND A LOVER IN ANOTHER… In 1945, Claire Randall is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon in...

Crow Moon

Crow Moon
  • Author(s): Suzy Aspley
  • Location(s): The Trossachs
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Crime, Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the crow moon rises, the darkness is unleashed… Martha Strangeways is struggling to find purpose in her life, after giving up her career as an investigative reporter when her young twins died in a house fire. Overwhelmed by...

Daisy Chain

Daisy Chain
  • Author(s): Maggie Ritchie
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Lily Crawford and Jeanie Taylor, from very different backgrounds, are firm friends from their childhoods in Kirkcudbright. They share their ambitions for their futures, Lily to be an artist, Jeanie to be a dancer. The two women’s eventful lives...

Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains

Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains
  • Author(s): Catriona McPherson
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1920s

No 5 in the Dandy Gilver series. Set against the back drop of the general strike in the 1920`s,Catriona McPerson has used her impeccaable research of the period detail in the world of below stairs. Dandy gets a letter...

Dandy Gilver and the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom

Dandy Gilver and the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom
  • Author(s): Catriona McPherson
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1930s

Glasgow,1932, is a city in the grip of dance-fever. Public ballrooms and backstreet dancehalls are thronged every night and competition for professional titles is fierce. Even after the sudden death of one of last year’s hopefuls there are plenty...

Darker Ends

Darker Ends
  • Author(s): Alex Nye
  • Location(s): Glencoe
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Late 17th Century and contemporary

DARKER ENDS is the third title by Alex Nye, again inspired by the landscape and history of Scotland. This time Glencoe is the background setting, and the ghosts of the recent past mingle with the dark events of 1692,...

Dead Wood

Dead Wood
  • Author(s): Chris Longmuir
  • Location(s): Dundee/St Andrews
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In a grim Dundee of urban decay and criminal deprivation what happens when the cold, calculating world of gangland retribution collides with the psychosis of a serial killer? Kara has a debt to gangster Tony and takes to the...

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