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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,...

I Dreamed of You

I Dreamed of You
  • Author(s): Pim Wangtechawat
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What if your dreams really could come true?  Dao and Sunny both grow up in Bangkok, but that’s where the similarities between the two end. Dao’s family are well-off and worldly, full of ambition for their daughter. Sunny’s father, meanwhile, wants...

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...

It Ends At Midnight

It Ends At Midnight
  • Author(s): Harriet Tyce
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

t’s New Year’s Eve and the stage is set for a lavish party in one of Edinburgh’s best postcodes. It’s a moment for old friends to set the past to rights – and move on. The night sky is...

Kindred Spirits: Royal Mile

Kindred Spirits: Royal Mile
  • Author(s): Jennifer C Wilson
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The bestselling Kindred Spirits series continues… Along Edinburgh’s historic Royal Mile, royalty and commoners – living and dead – mingle amongst the museums, cafés and former royal residences. From Castle Hill to Abbey Strand, there is far more going...

Knots and Crosses

Knots and Crosses
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

‘And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you…?’ ‘That sort of thing’ is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third...

LAST TRAIN FOR MURDER

LAST TRAIN FOR MURDER
  • Author(s): Traude Ailinger
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When reporter Amy Thornton probes the death of an investigative journalist, she has no idea how deep and dark the case will get… Wherever there was trouble in the world, one would find Martha McGillivray. The celebrated journalist had...

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