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Tom Wilde novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Professor Tom Wilde, a Cambridge spy, is sent by the Allies to investigate the death of Prince George, brother of the King of England, in 1942 Britain.
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Jackson Brodie mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
The third installment in Kate Atkinson's wildly beloved series of Jackson Brodie Mysteries: a complex tale of murder, coincidence, and connected lives.
On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever...
On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost in his thoughts, he suddenly...
On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever...
On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson Brodie finds himself on a train that is both crowded and late. Lost in his thoughts, he suddenly...
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Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In the isolated villages of northern Scotland, the residents rely on chimney sweep Pete Ray. After Police Constable Hamish Macbeth finds a dead body stuffed inside a chimney, the entire town of Lochdubh suspects Pete. Then Pete's body is found on the Scottish moors, and the mystery deepens.
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"Desperate to escape her vile fiancé, Lady Clara devises a bold lie--that she's pregnant with another man's child. With her reputation in tatters, Clara flees to Scotland to live out her days in disgrace, resigned to her fate as a spinster until she claps eyes on the powerful and wickedly handsome Laird Hunt MacLarin."--Back cover.
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Publisher
Crown
Language
English
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In King's follow-up to Lady Macbeth, Queen Margaret feeds the hungry and clothes the poor while war rages at home and abroad in 11th-century Scotland. Margaret transforms from devout exile into devout yet savvy queen when she marries King Malcolm Canmore, 18 years her senior and famous for killing Macbeth and his heir to the Scottish throne.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Since there wasn't enough proof to convict Alva's father for the murder of her mother, she's been forced to live in his house in Ormscaula, Scotland, being raised by the man she holds responsible for her motherlessness. His family has been called guardians of the loch for generations, and now it falls to her to monitor the water levels, despite not knowing what she's watching for -- or what may be watching her back.
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English
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Travel to the Scotland Highlands with this classic Hamish Macbeth cozy mystery from the author of the Agatha Raisin series.
Death of a Poison Pen: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
When the residents of Lochdubh begin receiving poison pen letters, no one takes them seriously. But Constable Hamish Macbeth fears them, and his instincts prove correct when the postmistress is found hanging from a rope with a vicious poison pen letter at...
Death of a Poison Pen: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
When the residents of Lochdubh begin receiving poison pen letters, no one takes them seriously. But Constable Hamish Macbeth fears them, and his instincts prove correct when the postmistress is found hanging from a rope with a vicious poison pen letter at...
69) Laidlaw
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Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Meet Jack Laidlaw, the original damaged detective. When a young woman is found brutally murdered on Glasgow Green, only Laidlaw stands a chance of finding her murderer from among the hard men, gangland villains, and self-made moneymen who lurk in the city's shadows.
70) The rogue
Author
Series
Devil's duke novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Lady Constance Read is independent, beautiful, and in need of a husband -- now. The last man on earth she wants is Evan Saint-Andre, the rogue who broke her heart six years ago.
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Fiona Knox thought she was pulling her life back together when she inherited her godfather's cottage in Duncreigan, Scotland -- complete with a magical walled garden. But the erstwhile Tennessee flower-shop owner promptly found boots-deep in danger when she found a dead body among the blossoms. One police investigation later -- made a trifle less unpleasant by the presence of handsome Chief Inspector Neil Craig -- and Fiona's life is getting back...
72) The distant echo
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Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
This "cunningly plotted" (New York Times) thriller is coming to Britbox this October!
Bestselling, award-winning author Val McDermid delivers her most stunning story yet in The Distant Echo—an intricate, thought-provoking tale of murder and revenge.
Four in the morning, mid-December, and snow blankets St. Andrews School. Student Alex Gilbery and his three best friends are staggering home from a party when
73) Still life
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Series
Karen Pirie novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When a lobster fisherman on an early morning run pulls in his traps, he finds something he wasn't expecting to catch-a body. Turns out the dead man was the brother of a senior Scottish government official who vanished without a trace, and Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is asked to take over the investigation. At the same time, a woman in the wealthy enclave of Perth is clearing out her sister's home after a fatal road accident and finds a...
74) Frozen Charlotte
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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The haunting starts even before Sophie arrives on the Isle of Skye to spend the summer with her cousins, but when she arrives she finds a house haunted by the ghost of a girl who attended school there a hundred years ago, as well as cousin Rebecca who died young and is never mentioned by her family--and she must somehow solve the mystery of the frozen Charlotte dolls before the whole family is destroyed.
75) The black book
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English
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Inspector Rebus of the Edinburgh police has a busy time. A deported child molester is back in town, a stabbing victim refuses to say who attacked him, and last but not least the gun he bought turns out to be a murder weapon.
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English
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"Entrancing...a great escape for any reader."—USA Today (four stars)
New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan brings us a delightful summer novel that will sweep you away to the remote Scottish island of Mure, where two very different weddings are about to take place...
On the little Scottish island of Mure—halfway between Scotland and Norway—Flora MacKenzie and her fiancé
...77) Raven black
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English
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In the remote Scottish Shetland Islands, Det. Insp. Jimmy Perez investigates the murder of teenage Catherine Ross, found strangled on a snowy hillside shortly after New Year's. Police and citizens alike are quick to lay the blame on local eccentric Magnus Tait, who was not only the last person to see Catherine alive but also the prime suspect in the disappearance eight years earlier of another girl. Perez is soon drawn into an intricate web of lies...
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English
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The Lockhart brothers' quest for an ancient family heirloom has proved fruitless, and an unpaid debt has left them indebted to their rival, Payton Douglas. With no recourse, the Lockharts offer Payton their most valuable commodity: their sister Mared's hand in marriage. Raised to despise the Douglas name, Mared outwardly agress to the marital bargain; secretly, she concocts a plan to ensure Payton will not wish to marry her.
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Delaney Nichols is delighted with her life in Edinburgh, working at The Cracked Spine -- a shop that specializes in hard-to-find books and artifacts. With a job she loves, and her fast approaching marriage to devastatingly handsome Scottish pub-owner Tom Shannon, Delaney's life could be straight out of a fairy tale -- at least it would be, if the pastor meant to perform the wedding ceremony hadn't recently passed away. Outside the church where Delaney...
Author
Series
Ash Henderson novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
516 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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