Crime Novels Set in Edinburgh
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Add to BasketFuneral Note - - Hardback
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After a tip-off, a man's body is exhumed from a shallow grave in Edinburgh. Murder surely, yet he died from natural causes, so, case closed? Indeed was there ever a case? But Chief Constable Skinner and his people keep on digging. Who was the man, why was he buried so reverentially, and by whom? -
Add to BasketMurder Mile - - Paperback
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In a cold, windswept field on the outskirts of Edinburgh lies the brutally mutilated body of a young woman. As DI Rob Brennan looks at the tangled mass of limbs and blood, he feels his heart freeze. Like Fiona Gow five years earlier, this girl has been strangled with her own stockings, sexually mutilated and her eyes have been gouged out. -
Add to BasketThe Road To Hell - - Hardback
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When the body of a half-clothed woman is discovered in an Edinburgh park, a murder investigation is launched. Soon after, the naked corpse of a prominent clergyman is found, also in a park. DS Alice Rice wonders if the same killer is at work, and if so, what is the connection between the apparently motiveless attacks? -
Add to BasketLethal Intent - - Paperback
£7.64
Four Albanian gangsters have infiltrated Edinburgh. MI5 are on their case, and unknown to Bob Skinner and his men, they have set up a drug-dealing sting to flush the gangsters out. The resulting mayhem and violence throws everyone into confusion. Then it becomes apparent that the gangsters are preparing a hit on Prince William. -
Add to BasketLong Time Dead - - Paperback
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While in hospital after a hit-and-run accident, Gus Dury's best friend, Hod, asks him to investigate the ritual hanging of an Edinburgh University student. The murder victim's mother is a high-profile actress, who has promised a big-money reward. Gus, desperate for money, goes undercover at the university to track down those responsible. -
Add to BasketTruth Lies Bleeding - - Paperback
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Four teenagers find the mutilated corpse of a young girl stuffed into a dumpster in an Edinburgh alleyway. Who is she? Where did she come from? Who killed her and why? Inspector Rob Brennan is still shocked by the senseless shooting of his brother. The case of the dumpster girl looks perfect for getting him back on track. -
Add to BasketQuest For A Killer - - Paperback
£6.79
When the circus arrives in Edinburgh, Rose McQuinn is delighted. However, the much anticipated festivities are overshadowed by a curious set of crimes, involving the murder of a clerk during a bank robbery and, within hours of each other, the identical suicides of two young women. -
Long Time Dead - - Hardback
£17.99
While in hospital after a hit-and-run accident, Gus Dury's best friend, Hod, asks him to investigate the ritual hanging of an Edinburgh University student. The murder victim's mother is a high-profile actress, who has promised a big-money reward. Gus, desperate for money, goes undercover at the university to track down those responsible. -
Add to BasketLoss - - Paperback
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Gus Dury is a changed man. He is off the Edinburgh streets & back with estranged wife, Debs. He has promised her that he won't get involved in any more dodgy cases. Above all, he's off the drink. Then his brother, Michael, is found dead with a bullet in his heart and Gus' life begins to unravel all over again. -
Add to BasketThe Existential Detective - - Paperback
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William Blake is a private detective. When he is asked to investigate the disappearance of a scientist's wife, he finds himself entangled in layers of deceptions and disappearances that lead him inexorably back to unsolved mysteries in his own past: the loss of his own ten-year-old daughter Emily.
Edinburgh is awash with crime novels - this page lists as many as we can find, including all the work of Ian Rankin.
Last modified Monday 18 October 2010
















