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21) The falls
Author
Series
Inspector Rebus novel volume 12
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Edinburgh detective John Rebus gets involved with the case of a missing young woman. His only clues are an Internet-based role-playing game and a wooden doll stuffed into a tiny casket.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Welcome to 44 Scotland Street, home to some of Edinburgh's most colorful characters. There's Pat, a twenty-year-old who has recently moved into a flat with Bruce, an athletic young man with a keen awareness of his own appearance. Their neighbor, Domenica, is an eccentric and insightful widow. In the flat below are Irene and her appealing son Bertie, who is the victim of his mothers desire for him to learn the saxophone and italianall...
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie volume 2
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taking on the running of her niece's deli while Cat is attending a wedding in Italy, Isabel Dalhousie encounters a recent heart transplant patient who is troubled by memories of events that never happened to him.
24) Starburst
Author
Publisher
T. Dunne/St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Brought together during the annual Edinburgh International Festival, a classical violinist, a stuffy lawyer, a juvenile thief, and other characters find their lives and ambitions intersecting in unusual ways.
Author
Series
Inspector Rebus novel volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
In Edinburgh, Detective Rebus must put together conflicting clues to find a psychopathic killer and finds his own life threatened.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is investigating the death of a senior lawyer during a robbery. The case becomes more complex when a note is discovered, indicating that this may have been no random attack. When local gangster Big Ger Cafferty receives an identical message, Clarke decides that the recently retired John Rebus may be able to help. Together the two old adversaries might just stand a chance of saving Cafferty's skin. But a notorious...
Author
Series
Inspector Rebus novel volume 15
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Edinburgh investigator John Rebus pursues a case in the city's red-light district, where refugees seeking asylum in Scotland are subject to the most ruthless members of the crime world.
28) Z. Rex
Author
Series
Hunting volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
From Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Edinburgh, Scotland, thirteen-year-old Adam Adlar must elude police while being hunted by a dinosaur come-to-life from a virtual reality game invented by his father, who has gone missing.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1844 Edinburgh eighteen-year-old Lady Aileana Kameron is neither an ordinary debutante, nor a murderess--she is a Falconer, a female warrior born with the gift for hunting and killing the faeries who prey on mankind and who killed her mother.
Author
Series
Inspector Rebus novel volume 16
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Sent to man an abandoned police station during an international conference between the leaders of the free world, officer John Rebus investigates the suspicious falling death of a delegate at an Edinburgh banquet.
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie volume 7
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Investigating allegations against a headmaster candidate for her alma mater, Isabel uncovers surprising truths that hit close to home and unwittingly upsets the father of her young son.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 14
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series comes the latest adventures of Bertie and his family and friends. The winds of change are blowing through Scotland Street. Though Bertie is getting older, he can't resist an adventure to escape his domineering mother, and Bruce, ever the navel-gazer, will have to bring his best self to navigate the complexities of the pas de deux. While Alexander McCall Smith's delightfully warm and witty comedy takes...
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie volume 5
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Isabel Dalhousie comes to the aid of a renowned, much respected doctor whose reputation is at stake following the death of a patient because of allegations of scientific fraud in respect to a newly marketed drug.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 5
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
While precocious six-year-old Bertie seeks to escape his overbearing mother by joining the Cub Scouts, Matthew resolves to meet the challenges of married life and Cyril succumbs to romantic temptation.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
When 19th century Edinburgh is horrified by a series of brutal murders, a young woman claims to have dreamed each crime in detail and blames them on a lamplighter who may or may not be real. The official investigation headed by police inspector Carus Groves; the unofficial one, by professor of logic and metaphysics, Thomas McKnight, and his assistant, Joseph Canavan, gravedigger.
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie volume 9
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the theft of a valuable painting that was supposed to be donated to the Scottish National Gallery, Isabel harbors a growing suspicion that the thieves may be close to the painting's wealthy owner.
Author
Series
Scottish bookshop mystery volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Delaney Nichols, originally of Kansas but settling happily into her new life as a bookseller in Edinburgh, works at the Cracked Spine in the heart of town... When her new friends, also students at the medical school, come to the shop to sell a collection of antique medical books, Delaney knows she's stumbled across a rare and important find indeed. Her boss, Edwin MacAlister, agrees to buy the multivolume set, perhaps even to keep for his own collection....
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie volume 12
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Isabel becomes involved in a delicate paternity case in the twelfth installment of the beloved Isabel Dalhousie Series. Isabel finds herself befriended by Patricia, a single mother whose son, Basil, goes to school with Isabel's son. Isabel discovers that Basil is the product of an affair Patricia had with a well-known Edinburgh organist, also named Basil, who was, rumor has it, initially reluctant to contribute financially to the child's upkeep....
Author
Series
Edinburgh nights volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Desperate for money to look after her family, Ropa Moyo accepts a job at the magical private hospital Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments, but when her investigation into a coma patient leads her to the Edinburgh Ordinary School for Boys, she learns a long-dormant and malevolent entity has taken hold in this world.
40) Fateful words
Author
Series
Scottish bookshop mystery volume 8
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Fateful Words, the eighth Scottish Bookshop Mystery from beloved author Paige Shelton, bookseller Delaney Nichols stakes her reputation--and her life--when a literary tour turns deadly... When Edwin, Delaney's boss at the Cracked Spine bookstore, leaves town on secret business, Delaney is called upon to guide his yearly literary tour around Edinburgh. But on the first night of the tour, at the inn where the tour group is staying, the inn manager...
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