Aberdeenshire Fiction and True Crime

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  Strip The Willow - Paperback - John Aberdein
  For years council officer Lucy has felt alone, but as predatory LeopCorp twists the city to its global will, her instinct to resist becomes tangled with a deep call from the past. A wounded, ragged stranger comes to town - but can Lucy's heart reopen in time to save herself and her city?
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  Silver: An Aberdeen Anthology - Paperback
  This volume of poems about Aberdeen includes work by Edwin Morgan, Iain Crichton Smith, Thomas Hardy, Lord Byron, Stuart Conn, and many other writers old and new.
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  Blind Eye - Hardback - Stuart MacBride
  It's summer in the Granite City, but even the sunshine can't improve the mood at Grampian Police Headquarters. Aberdeen's growing Polish community is under attack from a serial offender who leaves mutilated victims to be discovered on building sites - eyes gouged out and the sockets burned.
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  The Nickum - Paperback - Doris Davidson
  Willie Fowlie's grandmother calls him a 'nickum' as he is a mischievous Aberdeenshire boy who often acts instinctively, bearing little or no consideration for the consequences of his actions. This often gets him into trouble, from the age of 11 right up to volunteering for the Gordon Highlanders in 1941.
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  The Redemption Of Alexander Seaton - Hardback - Shona MacLean
  Is the young man merely drunk or does his tottering walk suggest something more sinister? When he collapses in front of two sisters on that dark, wet night, they guess rightly that he's been murdered by poisoning. So begins this tale set in the town of Banff, Scotland in the 1620s.
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  Flesh House - Hardback - Stuart MacBride
  Panic strikes the Granite City. 20 years ago 'The Flesher' was butchering people all over the Uk until Grampian's finest put him away. But 11 years later he was out on appeal. Now he's missing and people are dying again.
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  Touching Distance - Hardback - Rebecca Abrams
  'Touching Distance' is a historical novel which explores the wider issues of the age: the abolition of the slave trade, civil unrest in America and the French Revolution. It tells of the tensions between reason and passion and of the corruption underlying the heart of a prosperous city.
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  The Winter Sea - Hardback - Susanna Kearsley
  When bestselling author Carrie McClelland visits the ruins of Slains Castle in Scotland to research her new book, she discovers that her ancestor, Sophia Paterson, had lived there in the early 18th century. Sophia's experiences give Carrie an immediate window into the past, and she realizes that they have much in common.
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  Broken Skin - Paperback - Stuart MacBride
  As February's leaden skies cast a grey pall over the granite streets of Aberdeen, DS Logan McRae is assigned a particularly unsavoury dead-end case - an unidentified body dumped outside a hospital by an unidentified motorist, showing signs of brutal S&M activity.
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  Monday Girl - Paperback - Doris Davidson
  After the death of her father, 10 year-old Renee and her mother are forced to open up their home to two lodgers. An impressionable child, Renee grows up weaving romantic fantasies around both men. But when they are sent to fight in World War Two, the young woman's life is thrown into turmoil.

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  Blood And Granite: True Crime From Aberdeen - Paperback - Norman Adams
  From a grudge that ended in a stabbing in an East End pub in 1901 to the barbaric killing of a nun at St Mary's Cathedral in 1988, this volume chronicles the most notorious homicides committed in Aberdeen over the last 100 years.
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  Hangman's Brae: True Crime And Punishment In Aberdeen And The North-East - Paperback - Norman Adams
  'Hangman's Brae' is a vividly written account of the blood-curdling crimes and brutal forms of punishment of north-east Scotland. The book explores the area's underworld and features the grave-robbers, jail-breakers, rioters, and other lawbreakers whose crimes led them to premature deaths.