After several years, Ann Cleeves has brought back DI Jimmy Perez! DI Perez has left Shetland and settled into his new home in the Orkney Islands, with his partner in crime and in life, Willow Reeves, and they're expecting a baby. After a wild storm, Archie Stout, a local personality and Perez's childhood friend, is …
Continue reading The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves (Shetland #9, Perez & Reeves #1)
In Aberdeen, Scotland, DI Logan McCrae is working with a skeleton crew, as officers across the board are decimated by the flu, while he's investigating the bombing of a motel that was full of immigrants and holding down the fort at the station too. But things are about to get really crazy when a body …
Continue reading This House Of Burning Bones (Logan McCrae bk #13) by Stuart MacBride
This stunning volume is Scotland the Strange: Weird Tales From Storied Lands, one of the latest in the Gilded Nightmares Series from The British Library. I love this series and have quite a few from the collection. They feature beautiful binding and cover art, and each one contains horror or ghost stories collected around a …
The body of a young woman is uncovered in a shallow grave, with a creepy twig figure placed in her mouth. At a nearby campsite, another young woman is missing and a twig figure has also been found in her camper van. While Rhona McLeod and her team are on the case, the missing woman's …
On a small Scottish island, there is the usual mix of old families and new people, each with their secrets and troubles, grudges and pasts. When a man from the mainland digs into something he shouldn't have, events unfold that leave something leaking into the water, and soon, with a storm coming, the island is …
Rilke is an auctioneer in Glasgow, and attending a friends wedding when he's given a friendly tip about an upcoming estate sale. When the man who gave him the tip turns up dead the next day, the police dismiss is as another overdose by a man living a "risky lifestyle" (aka, gay), but Rilke can't …
Following a scandal, Helen flees with her husband to his ancestral home, Ballintyre, where his family still lives, but on arrival her beloved sister in law Sylla is mysteriously missing and no one seems to be looking for her. Helen is determined to get to the bottom of it, and in the process, we learn …
Benbrae, the dark family estate she left behind, calls Megan home after 5 years away when her sister lays dying. Her return brings secrets to the surface, but Megan has mental health issues and is also deaf, so she's not sure that she can trust her own thoughts and memories and hearing. Why did her …
Karen is struggling following the recent death of her husband, and might be starting to remember something about the events of years ago, but can she trust her mind not to play tricks on her? Meanwhile, two swimmers find the body of a girl left in the peat bog. The preserved remains could be the …
Continue reading The Innocent Dead (Rhona MacLeod #15) by Lin Anderson
"A detective story with no detective" says the tagline on this book, and it's a pretty good description. Set in Edinburgh in 2011, Margaret is a middle aged woman whose life has imploded in London, so she flees to her mothers in Scotland. It's one of the coldest Winters on record, and there are a …
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