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The Last Breath

by Denise Mina

Paddy Meehan is home alone when there’s a knock at the door. It’s the police and they have bad news. Former boyfriend Terry Patterson’s naked body has been found in a ditch. He’s been tortured, hooded, then shot through the head: all hallmarks of an IRA assassination. Paddy is devastated: Terry was her first lover; the sort of journalist she’s always aspired to be. But why have the police come to her? Although... (more)

Shadow Of Sounds

by Alex Gray

The Glasgow Orchestra is rehearsing to perform, but little do they know of the sequence of events happening backstage. When George Millar, the orchestra's leader, is brutally murdered in his dressing room, his colleagues are shocked. But the show must go on. Enter DCI Lorimer and psychologist Solomon Brightman to investigate. What they uncover is a series of irrevocably tangled relationships between the orchestra... (more)

Still midnight

by Denise Mina

Alex Morrow is not new to the police force-or to crime-but there is nothing familiar about the call she has just received. On a still night in a quiet suburb of Glasgow , Scotland , three armed men have slipped from a van into a house, demanding a man who is not, and has never been, inside the front door. In the confusion that ensues, one family member is shot and another kidnapped, the assailants demanding an... (more)

Singing to the Dead

by Caro Ramsay

Singing to the Dead

by Caro Ramsay

It-s Christmas, and half the Partickhill police squad is down with flu. Not good timing, with a series of cyanide poisonings in the area, plus two small boys reported missing in the space of a few days. And then there-s the monumental task of providing concert security for rock legend Rogan O-Neill . . . But for Detective Inspector Colin Anderson, the nightmare is about to get terrifyingly close to home. For a... (more)

The Nicholas Feast: A Gil Cunningham Murder Mystery (Gil Cunningham Murder Mysteries)

The Nicholas Feast: A Gil Cunningham Murder Mystery (Gil Cunningham Murder Mysteries)

by Pat McIntosh

Glasgow, 1492: Gil Cunningham returns to his old university for a night of food, theater, and revelry, only to find one of the actors dead in the coal house, and becomes tangled in a web of espionage and blackmail.

Fair Friday

by Peter Turnbull

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over my shoulder

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Halfhead

by Stuart B. MacBride

Terrifying serial killer thriller set in the gritty Glasgow of the near future, from the bestselling author of the Logan McRae series. Glasgow, not too far in the future. A new punishment has been devised for the perpetrators of serious crimes -- one that not only reduces the prison population but also benefits society at large. The process is known as halfheading: the offender's lower jaw is removed and they are... (more)

Don't Call Me a Crook!: A Scotsman's Tale of World Travel, Whisky and Crime

Don't Call Me a Crook!: A Scotsman's Tale of World Travel, Whisky and Crime

by Bob Moore

It is a pity there are getting to be so many places that I can never go back to, but all the same, I do not think it is much fun a man being respectable all his life. Thus begins Don't Call Me a Crook! , a memoir of a 1920s youth thoroughly, noisily and lawlessly lived. Bob Moore, a Glaswegian, was a marine engine, occasional building superintendent and ramblin' man. "I have been round the world seven times,... (more)

Exile

by Denise Mina

In Exile, the compelling sequel to Garnethill—winner of the 1998 John Creasey Memorial Award for Best First Crime Novel—Denise Mina returns to Glasgow's grimmer residential precincts and the untidy life of Maureen O'Donnell. Again Maureen is confronted with a grisly case of murder. Ann Harris is nursing two broken ribs and reeking of alcohol when she visits Maureen's office at a Glasgow women's shelter two weeks... (more)

Lanark: A Life in Four Books

by Alasdair Gray

From its first publication in 1981, Lanark was hailed as a masterpiece and it has come to be widely regarded as the most remarkable and influential Scottish novel of the second half of the twentieth century. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide-ranging concerns, its playful narrative conveys at its core a profound message, both personal and political, about humankind's inability to love, and yet our... (more)

Resolution: A Novel of Crime

by Denise Mina

Blending suspense, compassion, raw instinct, and grim wit, Denise Mina's Resolution completes her compelling Garnethill trilogy (which includes two New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year) that Val McDermid, author of A Place of Execution, calls "head and shoulders above much of contemporary crime fiction." In her gripping new crime novel, Mina returns once more to the seamier precincts of Glasgow and... (more)

Stars, Stones and Scholars: The Decipherment of the Megaliths as an Ancient Survey of the Earth by Astronomy

Stars, Stones and Scholars: The Decipherment of the Megaliths as an Ancient Survey of the Earth by Astronomy

by Andis Kaulins

This survey will surpass its namesake, Gods, Graves and Scholars by Ceram, just as the Stars preceded the Gods and the Stones preceded the Graves.

A Small Weeping

by Alex Gray

The body of a prostitute is found at Glasgow's Queen Street Station, her hands, pointing towards her feet, placed as if in prayer, a small flower pressed between the palms. Psychologist Solomon Brightman is called to asist DCI Lorimer in the murder hunt, with the hope that his lateral thinking will shine a light on the case.

Never Somewhere Else

by Alex Gray

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. Frustrated by a lack of progress in the investigation, Lorimer is forced to enlist the services of Dr Solomon Brightman, a young psychologist and criminal profiler. Together they form an uneasy alliance. But when a homeless man is brought in for questioning the investigation takes... (more)

Poor Things

by Alasdair Gray

POOR THINGS revises the story of FRANKENSTEIN by replacing the traditional "monster" with Bella Baxter--a young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of a child. Satirizing the classic Victorian novel, POOR THINGS is a hilarious political allegory and a thought-provoking contrast between the ambition of men and the knowledge of women.

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The Last Breath

by Denise Mina

Shadow Of Sounds

by Alex Gray

Still midnight

by Denise Mina

Singing to the Dead

by Caro Ramsay

Singing to the Dead

by Caro Ramsay

The Nicholas Feast: A Gil Cunningham Murder Mystery (Gil Cunningham Murder Mysteries)

by Pat McIntosh

Fair Friday

by Peter Turnbull

over my shoulder

by Bob kutner

Halfhead

by Stuart B. MacBride

Don't Call Me a Crook!: A Scotsman's Tale of World Travel, Whisky and Crime

by Bob Moore

Exile

by Denise Mina

Lanark: A Life in Four Books

by Alasdair Gray

Resolution: A Novel of Crime

by Denise Mina

Stars, Stones and Scholars: The Decipherment of the Megaliths as an Ancient Survey of the Earth by Astronomy

by Andis Kaulins

A Small Weeping

by Alex Gray

Never Somewhere Else

by Alex Gray

Poor Things

by Alasdair Gray