Fiction

New for March

  • The Brotherhood Of Five

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    Clio Gray
    Paperback

    1808, on the Isle of Thanet, one man is pushed into a kiln of molten metal beneath the looming shadow of the Shot Tower, and another is dug up from the sandy bay beyond. Missing persons finder Whilbert Stroop has a hard time trying to solve the mystery of who these people were and why they died so strangely.

  • The Distant Echo

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    Val McDermid
    Paperback

    St. Andrews' medical student Alex Gilbey and his three best friends stumble across the dying body of a young woman and instantly become the chief suspects. 25 years later, the case is reopened and it seems that someone is taking revenge.

  • Killing The Shadows

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    Val McDermid
    Paperback

    Fiona Cameron, academic psychologist, used to help the police track serial offenders. She vowed never to work again for the Met when they ignored her advice but, when her friend's fellow crime novelist is murdered, she is forced to respond.

  • Naming The Bones

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    Louise Welsh
    Paperback

    Knee-deep in the mud of an ancient burial ground, a winter storm raging around him, and at least one person intent on his death: how did Murray Watson end up here? His quiet life in university libraries researching the lives of writers seems a world away.

  • A Place Of Execution

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    Val McDermid
    Paperback

    The after effects of an unsolved child murder in 1963 resonate decades later when the investigating officer George Bennett tells a journalist what happened. When he unaccountably pulls the plug the journalist begins to dig up some startling facts.

  • Soljas

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    Graham Johnson
    Paperback

    Dylan, Noxy and the infamous Strand Crew tax rival drug dealers using a red-hot steam iron and celebrate by raping wannabe WAGS on YouTube videos. But what happens when an innocent three-year-old girl is killed in the crossfire? Will the mayhem stop? Will the teenage murderers find redemption?

  • The Songwriter

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    Beatrice Colin
    Hardback

    New York, 1916. The paths of three central figures cross and re-cross, leaving a trail of passion, infidelity and betrayal, as the world changes faster than they could ever have imagined.

  • The Third God

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    Ricardo Pinto
    Paperback

    Amidst the massacre he himself helped bring about, Carnelian is now desperate to find a way to avoid more carnage. But it is too late for that. His spurned lover, Osidian, seeking revenge and determined to win back his stolen throne, has deliberately stoked the wrath of the Masters who rule the world from its centre, Osrakum.

  • To Kill A Tsar

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    £16.99
    Andrew Williams
    Hardback

    From glittering ballrooms to the cruel cells of the House of Preliminary Detention, from the grandeur of the British Embassy to the underground presses of the young revolutionaries, 'To Kill a Tsar' is a gripping thriller set in a world of brutal contrasts in which treachery is everywhere and nothing is what it seems.

  • Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It

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    Maile Meloy
    Paperback

    Caught between opposing forces - fidelity and desire, impulse and security, innocence and experience - these unforgettable characters have each reached a fork in the road. But what kind of fool wants it only one way?

  • Corrag

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    Susan Fletcher
    Hardback

    In 'Corrag', Susan Fletcher tells us the story of an epic historic event, of the difference a single heart can make - and how deep and lasting relationships can come from the most unlikely places.

  • The Crossroads

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    Niccolò Ammaniti
    Paperback

    Home life is far from perfect for 16-year-old Cristiano, so when his drink-sozzled father and two reprobate friends come up with a plan to rob a bank, he sees the chance of a better life. But as a tremendous storm brews that night, the perfect crime will have shocking consequences for all involved.

  • The Double Comfort Safari Club

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    Alexander McCall Smith
    Hardback

    It is all very well for Mr Clovis Anderson, renowned author of 'The Principles of Private Detection', to warn against working for those we love. But it is clear to Mma Ramotswe that Rra Anderson is not a regular visitor to Botswana, where friends and family, like cattle and acacia trees, are everywhere.

  • Fatal Last Words

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    Quintin Jardine
    Paperback

    It's August and the Edinburgh International Book Festival is in full swing. So it's a considerable embarrassment when one of Scotland's most successful crime writers is found dead in the author tent. The victim's phone was tapped. Are the spooks involved? Or has mystery fiction become true crime?

  • A Game Of Sorrows

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    Shona MacLean
    Hardback

    This historical thriller sweeps Alexander Seaton back to his roots in troublesome Ulster, and a family he might prefer never to have met.

  • If The Dead Rise Not

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    Philip Kerr
    Paperback

    Bernie Gunther, forced to resign as a homicide detective with Berlin's Criminal Police, is now house detective at the famous Adlon Hotel. Two bodies are found - a businessman and a Jewish boxer, and Bernie is drawn into the lives of various hotel guests.

  • Lonely Werewolf Girl

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    Martin Millar
    Paperback

    Teenage werewolf Kalix MacRinnalch is pursued through the streets of London by murderous hunters, while in the Scottish Highlands there's trouble at Castle MacRinnalch as the Werewolf Clan prepares for war.

  • The Twisted Heart

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    Rebecca Gowers
    Paperback

    Kit, a work-obsessed literature student, decides to go to a dance class. For a while it looks like Joe, the shadowy figure she meets there, may tempt her to put her books aside & live a little. But as Joe's world becomes increasingly threatening & Kit's research leads her to stumble on a historical mystery, she is faced with a choice.

  • The Worst Of Friends: The Betrayal Of Joe Mercer

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    Colin Shindler
    Paperback

    'The Worst of Friends' is a fictional account of the plans Mercer and Allison hatched to make a team with no decent players league champions in three seasons and the rows that followed Allison's realisation that Mercer's initial promise to let him take over in two years was never going to be fulfilled.

  • Hawkfall And Other Stories

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    £6.99
    George Mackay Brown
    Paperback

    This collection of stories demonstrates the full range of George Mackay Brown's literary talent. All of these sharply-etched fables deal with his perennial themes - love, violence, death and rebirth - and are set in an Orcadian world that spans myth and reality, past and present.

  • A Highlander's Homecoming

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    Melissa Mayhue
    Paperback

    When Robert MacQuarrie was swept forward in time to present-day Scotland, he left behind in the 13th century a vow to protect his friend's little daughter, Isabella. Haunted by guilt, he leaps at the chance to go back. But fickle faerie magic returns him to his family castle 20 years after he left it.

  • The Holy City

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    Meg Henderson
    Paperback

    Henderson takes a single tenement building in the town of Clydebank and uses it, and the fortunes of the families who occupy it, to tell the story of Clydeside during the Blitz and in the years that followed.

  • In The Warrior's Bed

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    Mary Wine
    Paperback

    Cullen McJames will not have his honour sullied, certainly not by his clan's nemesis Laird Erik McQuade. So when McQuade tells the Court of Scotland that Cullen has stolen his daughter's virtue, Cullen steals the daughter. Bronwyn McQuade won't go quietly and Cullen has much to learn about a woman's fighting spirit.

  • The Island Of The Women

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    £6.99
    George Mackay Brown
    Paperback

    In these six stories Brown leads us back along the sweep of Orkney's past and beyond to the remoteness of fable. As always he reveals the timelessness of the lived moment and he finds the constants of all life in the harvest of the sea and land.

  • Javascotia

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    Benjamin Obler
    Paperback

    Melvin Podgorski is young, naive, American - and a coffee fanatic. It's this passion that leads him from his native Chicago to 1990s Glasgow to scout out the prospects for a US coffee franchise.

  • The Kilt Maker

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    £10.99
    Anne Douglas
    Paperback

    Kilt maker Kirsty Muir is left broken hearted when fiddler Jake MacIver disappears off on tour. However, her heart is mended by Fraser Gilmour, owner of the kilt shop. That is, until the day when she finds Jake waiting outside her door, full of apologies and claims of love.

  • Remember Remember

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    Hazel McHaffie
    Paperback

    When Doris is found directing traffic in the middle of the night, her daughter Jessica is forced to put her in a home. Clearing out the family house in preparation for selling it, Jessica comes across secrets her mother kept from her long before her memor

  • The Revolution Business

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    Charles Stross
    Paperback

    Things are going badly for the Clan. Locked in a vicious civil war for control over the kingdom of Niejwein, their army is bottled up inside a fortress under siege in two parallel universes at once.

  • Sick Heart River

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    John Buchan
    Paperback

    Given a year to live, lawyer and MP Sir Edward Leithen fears he will die unfulfilled and disillusioned. He resolves to devote his last energies to finding and restoring to health a young Canadian banker. This is John Buchan's last novel.

  • A Thousand Sons

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    Graham McNeill
    Paperback

    When the primarch Magnus foresees the treachery of Warmaster Horus & warns the Emperor with the very powers he was forbidden to use, the Master of Mankind dispatches fellow primarch Leman Russ to attack Prospero itself. But Magnus has seen more than the betrayal of Horus & the revelations will change the fate of his fallen Legions forever.

  • Winter Tales

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    £6.99
    George Mackay Brown
    Paperback

    A collection of stories, focusing on light and darkness, winter and its festivals. Through a variety of characters from shipwrecked Scandinavians to an Edinburgh gentleman, George Mackay Brown looks at the impact of ways of thinking on the traditional way of life of Orkney.