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• The Inheritance

  A Novel

  Sakhlecha, Trisha

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  The Agarwal family gathers on a private Scottish island for a reunion where patriarch Raj plans to announce his company's succession, but as long-held secrets, personal betrayals, and simmering tensions rise, the reunion takes a deadly turn, leaving…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dead Water

  Fletcher, C. A.

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  On the edge of the Northern Atlantic lies a remote island. The islanders are an outwardly harmonious community—but all have their own secrets, some much darker than others. And when a strange disorder begins to infect them all, those secrets come to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Distant Echo

  McDermid, Val

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  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 they stumble upon the body of a young woman. Rosie Duff has been raped, stabbed and left…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Blackhouse

  May, Peter

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  The Isle of Lewis is the most remote, harshly beautiful place in Scotland, where the difficulty of existence seems outweighed only by people's fear of God. But older, pagan values lurk beneath the veneer of faith, the primal yearning for blood and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Various Haunts of Men

  Hill, Susan

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  A lonely woman of fifty-three vanishes in fog and a twenty-two year old never returns from an early morning walk. Experienced policemen know that missing persons either turn up or go missing on purpose. But fresh young D.S. Freya Graffham won't drop…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hunting Party

  A Novel

  Foley, Lucy

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  A group of thirty-something Oxford friends celebrate New Year's Eve in the Scottish Highlands as a historic blizzard hits, trapping and isolating them, only to discover one of them is a murderer.

• Edge of the Grave

  A Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery

  Morrison, Robbie

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  In 1932 Glasgow, when the son-in-law of one of the city's wealthiest shipbuilders is murdered, Inspector Jimmy Dreghorn must dig deep into Graswegian society to find out who wanted the man dead and why, while a sadistic serial killer stalks the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Less Dead

  Mina, Denise

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  Navigating burnout, an unfaithful ex and a relative's recent death, Margo reaches out to her birth family before discovering that her biological mother was murdered years earlier by a killer who begins sending her threatening letters.

• Perfect Remains

  Fields, Helen

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  On a remote Highland mountain, the body of Elaine Buxton is burning. All that will be left to identify the respected lawyer are her teeth and a fragment of clothing. In the concealed back room of a house in Edinburgh, the real Elaine Buxton screams…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• His Bloody Project

  Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae; A Novel

  Burnet, Graeme Macrae

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  A triple murder in a remote northwestern farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae. There’s no question that Macrae is guilty, but the police and courts must uncover what drove him to murder the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Trap

  A Novel

  Glass, Ava

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  British spy Emma Makepeace is headed to Edinburgh for the global G7 Summit when her team is tipped off about a high-profile assassination the Russians are planning—but they have no idea who the target is. Surrounded by the world’s most powerful…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ice Twins

  A Novel

  Tremayne, S.K.

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  Moving to a tiny Scottish island a year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah are shattered when their surviving daughter claims they have mistaken her identity and that she is actually the twin…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cold Granite

  MacBride, Stuart

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  Returning to duty after recovering from being stabbed by a murder suspect, Detective Sergeant Logan McRae becomes involved in the ritualistic murder of a three-year-old boy, whose body is found months after being reported missing.

• The Dragon Man

  Disher, Garry

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  Detective Inspector Hal Challis, who must apprehend a killer before he strikes again, is forced to first contend with the media, as well as his ex-wife, who is attempting to resurrect their marriage eight years after attempting to murder him.

• The Turn of the Key

  Ware, Ruth

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  When a high-paying nanny job at a luxurious Scottish Highlands home ends with her imprisonment for a child's murder, a young woman struggles to explain to her lawyer the unravelling events that led to her incarceration.

• Raven Black

  Cleeves, Ann

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  When murder strikes a remote hamlet in the Shetland Islands, and the body of a teenage girl turns up in the winter snow, Inspector Jimmy Perez launches an investigation into the killing that takes him into the heart of sinister secrets from the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Witness

  Meyrick, Denzil

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  James Machie was a man with a genius for violence, his criminal empire spreading beyond Glasgow into the UK and mainland Europe. Fortunately, James Machie is dead, assassinated in the back of a prison ambulance following his trial and conviction.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Laidlaw

  McIlvanney, William

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  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.