Angus King
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"Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's war on heavy industry has put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for his artistic brother and practical sister. She dreams of...
2) Kilt Trip
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"Deeply romantic and breathtaking...readers will be swooning and flocking to Scotland long after they've turned the last page." —Livy Hart, author of Planes, Trains, and All the Feels
Ready or Scot...
Globetrotter Addie Macrae always follows her wanderlust. As a travel consultant, she jet sets around the world—anywhere but Scotland. But when she's sent on assignment to help a struggling family-run tour company...
Ready or Scot...
Globetrotter Addie Macrae always follows her wanderlust. As a travel consultant, she jet sets around the world—anywhere but Scotland. But when she's sent on assignment to help a struggling family-run tour company...
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For fans of Outlander, New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands' newest installment of the Highland Brides series brings us a sweeping tale of passion as a laird's swim in a loch leads to the love of a lifetime.
An invigorating swim in the loch was exactly what Calan Campbell, Laird of Kilcairn, needed after defeating his enemies in battle. What he didn't need was a thief running away with his plaid while he swam.
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'A thriller writer set to blow up the bestseller lists' CL Taylor Don't miss the first stunning thriller in the new DS Max Craigie Scottish Crime series! 'Neil Lancaster is – by some distance – the most authentic voice in thriller writing' Tony Parsons This grave can never be opened.The head of Scotland's most powerful crime family is brutally murdered, his body dumped inside an ancient grave in a remote cemetery. This murder can never be forgotten.DS...
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When a medical whistleblower goes missing, private investigator Charlie Cameron agrees to take on the case.
Gavin Law exposed a tragic case of medical malpractice but now he's missing. It's just another case for Glasgow PI, Charlie Cameron, until he comes to believe Law was murdered.
Did the disgraced surgeon abandon his sacred oath to become a killer? Or. did the hospital itself have Law permanently silenced? As Charlie digs deeper, he discovers...
7) Blood Ties
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The Queen of Glasgow, Toni McVay, is no ordinary crime boss.
For one thing, she likes to discipline disappointing employees by scooping out their eyeballs and keeping them as souvenirs. Jamie Gray and his gang the Blood Brothers are happy to do her dirty work in return for lessons in the ways of the local underworld, but are in no doubt that they need to keep Toni sweet to keep themselves safe.
Rival families The Gordons and The Thompsons are ready...
8) The Heretic
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Set in 1976, seven years after the murders recounted in Liam McIlvanney's breakout novel, The Quaker, this new Glasgow noir novel is a standalone mystery featuring serial character, Detective Duncan McCormack.
McCormack has returned to Glasgow after a stint with the Metropolitan Police in London. The reason for his return is left a lurking mystery throughout. He is investigating a series of murders that seem at first to be the result of random bouts...
9) The Wronged
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A complex case of missing persons draws Scottish PI Charlie Cameron into Glasgow's deadly underworld.
Private Investigator Charlie Cameron is searching for a man who disappeared after his son's suicide. When an unidentified body turns up at the morgue, Cameron is sure it's another case closed. But, the body laid out on the slab isn't the man he's looking for. And, it isn't a stranger. Suddenly, a routine investigation becomes a desperate fight for...
10) Blood Pact
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Pre-order the BRAND NEW gritty gangland thriller from Heather Atkinson!To survive, they'll need to stick together…
After the defeat of the rival Gordon and Thompson families, the Blood Brothers' reputations as feared lieutenants of the McVay clan are firmly established. The Gallowburn has become an untouchable stronghold in their capable hands.
However, danger rears its head in another form - Jamie's deadliest foe, Cameron Abernethy. Still fighting...
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Travel into the dark underworld of Glasgow, Scotland, in the suspenseful, award-winning organized-crime thriller series that the New York Times calls "habit-forming."
Hit man Calum MacLean has finally had enough of killing. And he's planning an unprecedented escape just as his employers need him the most -- Glasgow's biggest criminal organizations are gearing up for a final, fatal confrontation.
The panic over Calum's abrupt disappearance may finally...
12) Bad Blood
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If you can't trust your family, who can you trust...?
Glasgow gangster Jamie Gray and his fellow Blood Brothers rule the Gallowburn Estate with an iron fist. No one messes around on their turf without consequences.
But when, Jamie's erstwhile dad, Jason Gray, reappears after many years away, some of them spent behind bars, the Blood Brothers are drawn into the murky and dangerous world of the toughest gangster of them all, The Queen of Glasgow, Toni...
13) The Quaker
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A Washington Post Best Book of the Year: Based on true events, "a solidly crafted and satisfying detective story" set in 1960s Glasgow (The Guardian).
It is 1969 and Glasgow is in the grip of the worst winter in decades. But it is something else that has Glaswegians on edge: a serial killer is at large. The brutality of The Quaker's latest murder- a young woman snatched from a nightclub, her body dumped like trash in the back of a cold-water tenement-has...
14) Blood Brothers
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When you're running the streets, loyalty is everything...
Gangs rule the streets of the rough Gallowburn Estate in Glasgow, but the deepest rivalry of all is between Jamie Gray and his friends, known as the Blood Brothers, and their enemies, the Lawsons.
The two gangs clash frequently, but when a phone containing incriminating evidence disappears after a particularly brutal run-in, the stakes are higher than ever.
Jamie's mother Jackie is as hard...
15) The Accused
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When Private Investigator Charlie Cameron agrees to take on a cold case, he is, drawn back into Glasgow's dark underworld...
Glasgow PI Charlie Cameron knows Kim Rafferty is bad news the moment they meet. Desperate people always spell trouble in his experience, and Mrs. Rafferty is as desperate as they come. What she is asking for is insane and if he agrees to help the wife of the notorious East-End gangster, the consequences for them both could be...
16) Witch Wood
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The author of the Thirty-Nine Steps blends history with fantasy and horror in this tale of a Scottish minister torn between his church and his king.
Seventeenth-century Scotland is immersed in a terrifying era. Although his new parishioners are staunch supporters of the National Covenant, moderate young minister David Sempill is not so certain.
Then one dark night, Sempill witnesses a demonic ritual performed in the Black Wood of Melanudrigill....
17) Black Widow
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A “hair-raising . . . devilishly complicated mystery” from the Scottish crime master. “Don’t even try to guess the outcome” (The New York Times Book Review).
Diana Jager is clever, strong, and successful, a skilled surgeon and fierce campaigner via her blog about sexism in medicine. Yet it takes only hours for her life to crumble when her personal...
Diana Jager is clever, strong, and successful, a skilled surgeon and fierce campaigner via her blog about sexism in medicine. Yet it takes only hours for her life to crumble when her personal...
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It's easy to kill a man. It's hard to kill a man well.
A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The clues are there if you know to look for them. He is an expert. A loner. Freelance. Another job is another job, but what if this organization wants more?
A meeting at a club. An offer. A target: Lewis Winter, a necessary sacrifice that will be...
A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The clues are there if you know to look for them. He is an expert. A loner. Freelance. Another job is another job, but what if this organization wants more?
A meeting at a club. An offer. A target: Lewis Winter, a necessary sacrifice that will be...
19) Fray
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'Beautiful, amazing, mesmerising' ALAN CUMMING Fray is a missing-person mystery like no other. Set in the menacing Scottish highland wilderness, it follows a lone, nameless narrator who is reeling from their mother's death and father's subsequent disappearance. While searching for the father, we stumble instead upon a remote, abandoned cottage filled with thousands of confusing notes in the father's handwriting. One of these leaves the narrator terrified:...
20) Halfhead
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Terrifying serial killer thriller set in the gritty Glasgow of the near future, from the bestselling author of the Logan McRae series.
There are worse things than the death penalty...
They call them halfheads: convicted criminals, surgically mutilated and lobotomized by the State, then sent out to do menial jobs in the community so everyone will know what happens when you break the law. There are no appeals, no reprieves, and no one ever comes back....