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  1. The Maiden

    The Maiden

    "In the end, it did not matter what I said at my trial. No one believed me." Edinburgh, October 1679. Lady Christian Nimmo is arrested and charged with the murder of her lover, James Forrester. News of her imprisonment and subsequent trial is splashed across the broadsides, with headlines that...
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    • fiction gothic historical historical fiction literary fiction scotland
    • Reviews: 1
    • Category: Classical & Historical
  2. Mayflies

    Mayflies

    Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the...
    • Aimie
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    • coming of age contemporary fiction historical fiction literary fiction music scotland
    • Reviews: 2
    • Category: Fiction
  3. The Searcher

    The Searcher

    Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After 25 years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But then a local kid comes looking for his...
    • Jess
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    • crime fiction ireland mystery mystery thriller suspense thriller
    • Reviews: 1
    • Category: Mystery & Thriller
  4. All the Colours of the Dark

    All the Colours of the Dark

    Late one summer, the town of Monta Clare is shattered by the abduction of teenager Joseph 'Patch' Macauley. Nobody more so than Saint Brown, who will risk everything to find her best friend. But when she does: it will break her heart. Patch lies alone in a pitch-black room - until he feels a...
    • Jess
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    • crime fiction historical fiction mystery mystery thriller romance suspense thriller
    • Reviews: 1
    • Category: Mystery & Thriller
  5. The Cracked Mirror

    The Cracked Mirror

    You know Johnny Hawke. Hard-bitten LAPD homicide detective. Always in trouble with his captain, always losing partners, but always battling for the truth, whatever it takes. You know Penny Coyne. The little old lady who has solved multiple murders in her otherwise sleepy village, despite...
  6. Trust Her

    Trust Her

    Two sisters find they can't outrun their past in the riveting new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Northern Spy Three years after they narrowly escaped the IRA's worst punishment for informing, Northern Irish sisters Tessa and Marian Daly have built a new life in Dublin...
    • Tom
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    • fiction historical fiction ireland irish literature mystery mystery thriller suspense thriller
    • Reviews: 1
    • Category: Mystery & Thriller
  7. A Spy Alone

    A Spy Alone

    2022: Former spy Simon Sharman is eking out a living in the private sector. When a commission to delve into the financial dealings of a mysterious Russian oligarch comes across his desk, he jumps at the chance. But as Simon investigates, worrying patterns begin to emerge. His subject made...
  8. We Solve Murders

    We Solve Murders

    Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him when he comes home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy's business now. Amy...
    • Regan
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    • cozy mystery crime fiction mystery mystery thriller thriller
    • Reviews: 1
    • Category: Mystery & Thriller
  9. Demon Copperhead

    Demon Copperhead

    Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenage single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-coloured hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath...
    • Hera
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    • coming of age contemporary fiction historical fiction literary fiction
    • Reviews: 6
    • Category: Contemporary & Literary
  10. The House of Fame

    The House of Fame

    Amber Knight is hot property - pop star, film star, front-page gossip. DC Nick Belsey is less celebrated. He can't shake his habit of getting into serious trouble and his career at Hampstead CID is coming to a dishonourable end. He is currently of no fixed address - squatting in a disused...
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