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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 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 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…
