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Scotland

Podcast Review: Body of Proof by Darrell Brown and Sophie Ellis

By J.B. Stevens

September 19, 2019

A recent transfer to Atlanta, and the resulting ninety-minute commute, led me down an audio content rabbit hole. My first venture into this world was Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie. As the winner of the Booker of Bookers, Rushdie’s sprawling magical fiction merits its own review. With that said, I learned Midnight’s Children is not…

Book Review: The Unquiet Heart by Kaite Welsh

By Larry Clow

April 5, 2019

The Unquiet Heart is Kaite Welsh’s sequel to the acclaimed The Wages of Sin―and once again set in moody fin de siecle Edinburgh―Sarah Gilchrist finds herself trying to prove her fiancé’s innocence in the midst of his murder trial. The second entry in Kaite Welsh’s Sarah Gilchrist series finds the amateur detective/medical student getting her life…

Book Review: While You Sleep by Stephanie Merritt

By Janet Webb

March 11, 2019

While You Sleep by Stephanie Merritt, a modern-day ghost story set on a remote Scottish island, is an erotic Hitchcockian thriller evoking the dark atmospheric of a house that may be more than it seems . . . While You Sleep demands close attention to every detail because so many elements verge on the supernatural,…

Book Review: The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

By Kristin Centorcelli

February 28, 2019

In Lucy Foley’s The Hunting Party, a group of old Oxford friends celebrates their annual reunion at a lodge in the remote Scottish Highlands. With an impending blizzard on the way, the nostalgia ends abruptly when one of them is murdered.  Anyone that’s read Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None is familiar with the locked room…

Review: A Strange Scottish Shore by Juliana Gray

By Janet Webb

September 26, 2017

A Strange Scottish Shore by Juliana Gray is the second book in the Emmeline Truelove historical mystery series. A Strange Scottish Shore is a multi-layered story that rewards a perceptive, patient reader. The first of the Emmeline Truelove series, A Most Extraordinary Pursuit, introduced readers to the three main characters: Maximilian Haywood, the heir to…

Book Review: The Wages of Sin by Kaite Welsh

By Dirk Robertson

March 10, 2017

The Wages of Sin by Kaite Welsh is a page-turning tale of murder, subversion, and vice in which a female medical student in Victorian Edinburgh is drawn into a murder investigation when she recognizes one of the corpses in her anatomy lecture. A prostitute is murdered in late-nineteenth-century Edinburgh, and no one cares. The early demise of…

“A Christmas Tartan: A Scottish Bookshop Mini-Mystery”: New Excerpt

By Paige Shelton

October 26, 2016

In anticipation of the 2nd Scottish Bookshop Mystery by Paige Shelton, Of Books and Bagpipes (Available April 4, 2017), and, of course, in celebration of the upcoming holiday season, we're thrilled to offer you a sneak peek of “A Christmas Tartan,” where an old, weathered copy of A Christmas Carol leads Delaney on the search for a…

Vostok: New Excerpt

By Steve Alten

May 5, 2016

Vostok by Steve Alten is the sequel to The Loch and the prequel to MEG: Nightstalkers in this crossover novel uniting two of Alten's most popular series (Out now!) East Antarctica: The coldest, most desolate location on Earth. Two-and-a-half miles below the ice cap is Vostok, a six thousand square mile liquid lake, over a…

The Cracked Spine: New Excerpt

By Paige Shelton

March 21, 2016

The Cracked Spine by Paige Shelton is the first in the Scottish Bookshop mystery series featuring Delaney Nichols, who takes a job at the quaint Scottish bookshop, The Cracked Spine—but after a priceless artifact goes missing and her boss's sister gets murdered, it's clear that this new job is more than just books and manuscripts…

Headed for Trouble: New Excerpt

By Shiloh Walker

December 29, 2015

Headed for Trouble by Shiloh Walker follows Neve McKay, a girl from a small Southern town trying to make it in the big city, whose tragic secret endangers Ian Campbell, a handsome Scottish lad that has fallen in love and will do anything to keep her safe (Available December 29, 2015).   SHE'S A SMALL-TOWN…

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