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Angel With Two Faces
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PaperbackInspector Archie Penrose invites Josephine Tey down to his home in Cornwall so she can recover from the traumatic events depicted in 'An Expert in Murder'. However, Josephine and Archie are soon forced to turn their attentions to the violent reality which lies beneath a seemingly idyllic community.
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Anthropology: And A Hundred Other Stories
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PaperbackThrough a series of surreal comic monologues, each one a story in itself, Dan Rhodes writes about the inner agonies of modern man.
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The Best Of John Buchan: 3 Rip-Roaring Richard Hannay Thrillers
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PaperbackRichard Hannay, the fictional character created by John Buchan, averted disaster for king and country on many occasions, being hounded by ruthless villians from Scotland to the Swiss Alps in the process. Together in this volume are his 1st World War adventures comprising: 'The Thirty-Nine Steps', 'Greenmantle' and 'Mr Steadfast'.
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Daisychain
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PaperbackLogan Finch has just about everything he ever wanted, including a penthouse apartment and a shot at making partner in one of Glasgow's largest law firms. But there's something missing from his life: he still pines for the woman he thought was 'the one' and who left him without a word of explanation over 12 years ago.
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Dead In The Water
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PaperbackA murdered girl haunts DI Marjory Fleming when she is asked to investigate a cold case, the shameful details of which her father struggled to keep secret. Restless ghosts are brought back to life too when the TV crew of a popular crime series arrives in Galloway bringing excitement and disruption to a small market town.
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The Devil's Paintbrush
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PaperbackParis, 1903. Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald, one of the greatest heroes of the British Empire, is facing ruin in a shocking homosexual scandal when he meets the occultist, Aleister Crowley. As they set out into the night on a journey through the sinful city, the story of Macdonald's tragedy begins to unfold.
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The Lieutenant
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PaperbackIn 1788, Lieutenant Daniel Rooke is an astronomer with the First Fleet as it lands on the unknown shores of New South Wales. As the newcomers struggle to establish a settlement for themselves & their cargo of convicts, & attempts are made to communicate with those who already inhabit this land, Rooke sets up his observatory to chart the stars.
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Seduced By A Rogue
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PaperbackLady Mairi, a fair-haired beauty at 19, is heiress apparent to her father Lord Dunwythie's rich barony. He has carefully taught her how to manage their estates, but a feud between his clan & the Maxwell clan is brewing as the two families edge toward a clan war - their dispute over money owed.
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Shadow
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Paperback'Shadow' is an unputdownable story of dark secrets, murder and the depths to which the human mind will sink in order to protect its own.
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Weddings Galore!
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PaperbackIt is said that weddings are made in heaven. But, then again, so are clouds, rain, hail, hurricanes, thunder and lightning. In Allan Morrison's latest observational offering we follow all that happens to loving couples, starting with that electric spark when they first meet.
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Blue Lightning
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HardbackShetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to the Fair Isles to introduce his fiancée, Fran, to his parents. When a woman's body is discovered at the renowned Fair Isles bird observatory, Jimmy must investigate the old-fashioned way.
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The Chapel At The Edge Of The World
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PaperbackEmilio and Rosa are childhood sweethearts, engaged to be married. But it is 1942 and the war has taken Emilio far from Italy, to a tiny Orkney island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to return and help her mother run the family hotel on the shores of Lake Como, in Italy.
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Corpus
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PaperbackSusan Irvine tackles the supreme questions of fashion and art in this collection of short stories.
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Emotionally Weird
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Book with sound discOn a remote Scottish island, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories. Effie tells of her life at college in Dundee, and begins to wonder about recent strange happenings.
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Fall Of Thanes
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PaperbackTension between the clans of the Black Road and the True Bloods is mounting, as each side in the conflict becomes ever more riven by internal dissent and disunity. And Aeglyss the na'kyrim continues to spread chaos in the world, exerting a dangerous, insidious influence over events both near and far.
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Little Hands Clapping
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Hardback'Little Hands Clapping' brings together the Old Man with the respectable Doctor Ernst Frohlicher, his greedy dog Hans and a cast of grotesque and hilarious townsfolk, all of whose lives are thrown together as the town uncovers a crime so outrageous that it will shock the world.
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Memento Mori
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PaperbackMuriel Spark's 'Memento Mori', first published in 1959, is among the finest novels by one of the most witty and inclusive British writers of recent times. It tells the acidly funny story of a group of elderly people who start to receive threatening phone calls telling them 'remember, you must die'.
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Pig Island
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PaperbackThe remote Scottish island where investigative journalist Joe Oakes has just arrived has been divided into two clear halves. On one side lives the obscure religious community and on the other side, fenced off by high voltage electric wire, is where David Dove, the community's founder and leader, lives in total isolation.
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Raven Black
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PaperbackThe murder of teenager Catherine Ross sends shockwaves through a small Shetland community, and most of the fingers of blame point to loner and simpleton Magnus Tait. But Catherine's vicious and sudden demise has thrown a veil of suspicion over everyone who knew her, and one local detective is keeping all options open.
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Red Bones
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PaperbackWhen a young archaeologist, studying on a site at Whalsay, discovers a set of human remains, the islanders are intrigued. Is it an ancient find - or a more contemporary mystery?
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Rynn's World
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PaperbackThe ork hordes of Warlord Snagrod lay waste to the planet of Badlanding and wipe out the Crimson Fists sent to stop them. Chapter Master Kantor prepares a hasty line of defence on the Fists' home planet of Rynn's World.
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Skinner's Ordeal
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PaperbackA plane has been blown up in the Scottish skies, with the British and American defence secretaries amongst the victims. Chief Constable Bob Skinner finds himself with the greatest challenge of his career, as he tries to find the bombers.
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Tea Time For The Traditionally Built
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PaperbackMma Ramotswe is widely known for many things. Everybody knows about her kindness & her taste for redbush tea & cake. Everybody is familiar, too, with her tiny white van, which is beginning to feel its age. Are its difficulties to be terminal, or will Charlie, the feckless garage apprentice, be able to save the day?
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Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey
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PaperbackCockroft, a composer and socialite in the mode of Quentin Crisp, lives in self-imposed exile. Rattling about his farmhouse in the Italian countryside, his only constant source of company is the ever loyal Timoleon Vieta - a mongrel with the most beautiful eyes.
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After The Fire
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PaperbackNewly qualified as a firearms officer, Jamie Worth is called to a domestic disturbance. Events get out of hand, and he shoots and kills a teenaged girl who appears to have been unarmed. Already wracked with guilt, he is horrified when, with the media baying for blood, he is accused of murder.
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And This Is True
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HardbackA striking first novel by a young writer - the tale of a highly unusual rites of passage which confronts one of the strongest taboos.
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Dangerous Highlander
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PaperbackLucas MacLeod - one of three brothers cursed by dark magic for eternity - is driven by desire for Cara, the one woman he dare not let himself possess. But an epic war between good and evil is brewing, and Lucas must battle his all-consuming attraction for Cara or surrender to the impossible love that threatens to destroy them both.
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Death Of A Bore
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PaperbackA dozen budding authors show up at the village hall for famous writer John Heppel's writing classes. But, once Heppel has mocked their writing and butchered their dreams, every single one of them wants to kill the arrogant man. Then someone does.
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Death Of A Witch
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PaperbackReturning from holiday Hamish becomes unaccountably worried - it's as if he senses a dark cloud of evil hanging over Lochdubh. He soon learns that there is a newcomer to the village, a woman called Catriona Beldame, and that the villagers have decided she is a witch.
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Fever Of The Bone
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PaperbackMeet Tony Hill's most twisted adversary - a killer with a list of victims, a killer unmoved by youth & innocence, a killer driven by the most perverted desires. The murder & mutilation of teenager Jennifer Maidment is horrific enough on its own. But it's not long before Tony realises it's just the start of a brutal campaign.
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Highland Angel
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PaperbackSir Payton Murray's reputation as a lover is rivalled only by his prowess with the sword, yet it is the latter gift that has captured the interest of Kirstie MacIye. Fleeing a murderous husband who left her for dead, she vows to expose the man for the vile scoundrel that he is.
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Love, Revenge And Buttered Scones
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PaperbackAntagonistic brothers Henry and Peter find themselves enticed to Inverness from their London homes by mysterious letters. Troubled Elena is also drawn to the Highlands, seeking revenge on El Malo, the Scottish gunrunner who betrayed her family. Their three destinies are intertwined, and each will face up to difficult truths.
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The Mystery Of Cloomber
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PaperbackWhen John Hunter West falls on hard times a relation offers him and his children a home on the western coast of Scotland. The family's new life is disturbed by the arrival of Major-General Heatherstone, leading to unexplained tragedy on the bleak moors.
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Night
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HardbackThis is a psychological suspense thriller from the author of 'Home Before Dark'.
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Orphans Of Eldorado
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PaperbackArminto Cordovil lives in Eldorado with his father Amando in a white mansion. Theirs is a relationship full of passion & ambition. Separating father & son is a remarkable cast of characters, from Angelina, the dead mother, to Denisio, the infernal boatman, & at the centre, Dinaura, a girl who bewitches Arminto & dreams of Eldorado.
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Rich Girl, Poor Girl
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PaperbackFour girls - two rich, two poor. Three will grow up to become the best of friends, who'll see each other through love and heartbreak, dreams and disaster. One will grow into a woman with no thoughts beyond revenge.
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The Tin-Kin
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PaperbackWhen her aunt Shirley dies, Dawn finds herself back in her claustrophobic hometown of Elgin in Scotland. In an attempt to avoid contact with anyone from her former life, Dawn busies herself cleaning Shirley's flat, until one day she comes across the key to a cupboard that she was never allowed to open as a child.
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