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Dashboard Elvis is Dead

Dashboard Elvis is Dead
  • Author(s): David F Ross
  • Location(s): Glasgow, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Turn 21st Century

A failed writer connects the murder of an American journalist, a drowned 80s musician and a Scottish politician’s resignation, in a heart-wrenching novel about ordinary people living in extraordinary times. Renowned photo-journalist Jude Montgomery arrives in Glasgow in 2014,...

Games People Play

Games People Play
  • Author(s): Owen Mullen
  • Location(s): Scotland, Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2016

When a baby is stolen from a Scottish beach, private investigator Charlie Cameron reluctantly agrees to take the case. While her parents are just yards away, thirteen-month-old Lily Hamilton is abducted from Ayr beach in Scotland. Three days later,...

Witness the Dead

Witness the Dead
  • Author(s): Craig Robertson
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to 1970s

Scotland 1972. Glasgow is haunted by a murderer nicknamed Red Silk – a feared serial killer who selects his victims in the city’s nightclubs. The case remains unsolved but Archibald Atto, later imprisoned for other murders, is thought to...

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Random
  • Author(s): Craig Robertson
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Glasgow is being terrorised by a serial killer the media have nicknamed The Cutter. The murders have left the police baffled. There seems to be neither rhyme nor reason behind the killings; no kind of pattern or motive; an...

River Clyde

River Clyde
  • Author(s): Simone Buchholz, Rachel Ward (translator)
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Hamburg
  • Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mired in grief after tragic recent events, state prosecutor Chastity Riley escapes to Scotland, lured to the birthplace of her great-great-grandfather by a mysterious letter suggesting she has inherited a house. In Glasgow, she meets Tom, the ex-lover of...

Shuggie Bain

Shuggie Bain
  • Author(s): Douglas Stuart
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life. She dreams of greater things: a house with its own front door and a life bought and paid...

Time for the Dead

Time for the Dead
  • Author(s): Lin Anderson
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye, Afghanistan, Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contempoary

Time for the Dead is a gripping crime novel by Lin Anderson and sees forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod discover that a terrifying war is unfolding on Scotland’s Isle of Skye. When forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod returns to her roots...

Young Mungo

Young Mungo
  • Author(s): Douglas Stuart
  • Location(s): Glasgow, West Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQ+
  • Era(s): 1992

‘Prepare your hearts, for Douglas Stuart is back. After the extraordinary success of Shuggie Bain, his second novel, Young Mungo, is another beautiful and moving book, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal world of Glasgow’s housing...

Gillespie and I

Gillespie and I
  • Author(s): Jane Harris
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the...

In the Absence of Miracles

In the Absence of Miracles
  • Author(s): Michael J Malone
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A young man discovers a family secret that turns his world upside down in this dark, emotive, shocking psychological thriller by number-one bestselling author Michael J. Malone John Docherty’s mother has just been taken into a nursing home following...

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