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Nor Will He Sleep
David Ashton - Paperback - Polygon
1887. The streets of Edinburgh seethe with youthful anarchy as two rival gangs of students, Scarlet Runners and White Devils, try to outdo each other in wild exploits. After a pitched battle between them, an old woman is found savagely battered to death in Leith Harbour. Enter Inspector James McLevy, a little more grizzled, but unchanging in his fierce desire to mete out justice. As the inspector delves further he meets up with one Robert Louis Stevenson, in the city to bury his recently deceased father.
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Natural Causes
James Oswald - Paperback - Penguin Books
A young girl's mutilated body is discovered in a sealed room. Her remains are carefully arranged, in what seems to have been a cruel and macabre ritual, which appears to have taken place over 60 years ago. For Detective Inspector Tony McLean this baffling cold case ought to be a low priority, but he is haunted by the young victim.
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith - Paperback - Abacus
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is one woman, Precious Ramotswe, working out of a breezeblock office in Botswana. A cross between Kinsey Millhone and Miss Marple, Precious makes an unlikely heroine as she embarks on a very African mystery.
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No. 1 Suspect
Helen Mulgray - Hardback - Robert Hale
When a murder is witnessed on a webcam at the Seabird Centre near Edinburgh, DJ Smith - undercover agent for HMRC - knows that drug baron Hiram J. Spinks has returned to Scotland. Never one to stick to orders, Smith rents an apartment in the hunting lodge Spinks is using as a front, posing as upper-crust Vanessa Dewar-Smyth.
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Anne Collins - Paperback - Pearson Education
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Never Somewhere Else
Alex Gray - Paperback - Sphere
When a series of young women are discovered strangled and mutilated in a Glasgow park, it is up to DCI Lorimer to find their killer.
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Nemesis Of The Dead
Frances Lloyd - Hardback - Robert Hale
Ten holidaymakers are bound for Katastrophos, a tiny Greek island steeped in superstition & ancient myth. Ten people whose lives are about to change forever, because one of them is planning a ruthless murder. DI Jack Dawes is working undercover to prevent it, & takes his wife, Corrie, to the island, on a belated honeymoon.
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No Stone Unturned
Peter Turnbull - Paperback - Severn House
When a small-time crook offers information in return for police leniency, Hennessey and Yellich find themselves seeking the body of a man missing for ten years. But the mystery turns into murder.
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News Of Paul Temple
Francis Durbridge - Compact Disc - BBC Audiobooks
After his inital meeting with actress Iris Archer, Temple wrote a play for her. She was thrilled, but before the opening she disappeared to France. So, Temple was surprised when she turned up at an inn where he was holidaying at in Scotland!
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No More Victims
Natasha Cooper - Paperback - Barrington Stoke
When Candy hears of the murder of her son's classmate on her estate she's horrified. Then the police arrive. What has the crime to do with her? Is her son not telling her something? This crime novel has been tested on adult emergent readers for suitability and language level.