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- Location(s): Aberdeen
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1934
A mesmerising historical novel about a notorious true crime case A Granite Silence is an exploration – a journey through time to a particular house, in a particular street, Urquhart Road, Aberdeen in 1934, where eight-year-old Helen Priestly lives...
- 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....
- Location(s): Aberdeen, County Donegal, Coventry
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s onward
The book follows a Museum Curator and adopted son through his life. Forgotten times, post war Britain, this is a piecing together of one life through mementos past and present. A life set in the context of history.
- Location(s): Aberdeen
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Taking the premise that the work of a deceased artist tends to increase demand, Peter Burnett s latest novel, The Studio Game questions the fashionable demand for conceptual art. Tracing the brushstrokes of Duchamp and Dali, is it all...
22 Dead Little Bodies and Other Stories
- Location(s): Aberdeen
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
They say ‘small is beautiful’, but as Stuart MacBride demonstrates in these four tales, it can also be dark, violent, disturbing, and sometimes really quite rude. So pour yourself a wee dram, curl up on the sofa and enjoy...
- Location(s): Aberdeen
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Inspector Logan McRae is looking forward to a nice simple case something to ease him back into work after a year off on the sick. But the powers-that-be have other ideas… The high-profile anti-independence campaigner, Professor Wilson, has gone...
- Location(s): Aberdeen
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Someone’s preying on Aberdeen’s growing Polish population. The pattern is always the same: men abandoned on building sites, barely alive, their eyes gouged out and the sockets burned. With the victims too scared to talk, and the only witness...
- Location(s): Aberdeen
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Current
Richard Knox has done his time and seen the error of his ways. He wants to leave his dark past behind, so why shouldn’t he be allowed to live wherever he wants? Detective Sergeant Logan McRae isn’t thrilled about...
- Location(s): Aberdeen
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Even the darkest crimes will come to light… ‘Stuart MacBride is a damned fine writer’ Peter James It’s summertime in the Granite City: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and people are dying… It begins with Rosie...
- Location(s): Khartoum, Aberdeen, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Winner of the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year Award 2018 From one of our finest contemporary writers whose work has been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith and Aminatta Forna, Leila Aboulela’s Elsewhere, Home offers us a...
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