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44 Scotland Street
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Alexander McCall Smith
One of McCall Smith's particular talents is his ability to portray archetypes without resorting to stereotype or cliche. Thus we immediately recognise the Edinburgh chartered surveyor, stalwart of the Conservative Association, who dreams of membership to Muirfield golf club. We have the pushy Stockbridge mother, and her prodigiously talented five ...
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When Will There Be Good News?
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Kate Atkinson
In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna Mason witnesses an appalling crime. Thirty years later the man convicted of the crime is released from prison. In Edinburgh, sixteen-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for a G.P. But Dr Hunter has gone missing and Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. Across town, Detective Chief Inspector Louise ...
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Exit Music
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Ian Rankin
As he is simply trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on Detective Inspector John Rebus's desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. Only a few days shy of the end to his long, controversial career, will Rebus even make it that far?
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The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
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Caleb Carr
Caleb Carr, bestselling author of THE ALIENIST, makes his own contribution to the ever-popular subgenre of Holmes pastiche with this historical mystery commissioned by the Conan Doyle estate. Renovation of the Royal Palace of Holyrood, Queen Victoria's Edinburgh residence, is disrupted when two of the workers are murdered. One of the Queen's ...
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Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
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Alexander McCall Smith
The bestselling creator of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency once again eschews Botswana in favor of Scotland for this second entry in the Sunday Philosophy Club series, marking the return of Isabel Dalhousie, an independently wealthy half-Scot, half-American woman living in Edinburgh who devotes her time to editing the Review of Applied Ethics ...
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Espresso Tales
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Alexander McCall Smith
Fans will welcome the second installment in the bestselling 44 Scotland Street series. Full of McCall Smith's gentle humor and sympathy for his characters, "Espresso Tales" is also an affectionate portrait of a city and its people who, in the author's own words, "make Edinburgh one of the most vibrant and interesting places in the world."
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The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
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Alexander McCall Smith
In this fabulous fifth installment in a bestselling series, Isabel Dalhousie is asked to help a doctor who has been disgraced by allegations of scientific fraud. Whatever the outcome, Isabel's combination of spirit, smarts, and unabashed nosiness guarantees a delightful adventure.
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The World According to Bertie
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Alexander McCall Smith
The fourth charming installment in the bestselling 44 Scotland Street series continues the story of the ever-talented, ever-six-year-old Bertie. 38 illustrations.
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One Good Turn
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Kate Atkinson
From the author of 2005's breakout favorite "Case Histories" comes a brilliant new thriller featuring the irresistibly reluctant detective Jackson Brodie. A triumphant novel filled with wit and surprise, "One Good Turn" will delight the many fans who cheered Kate Atkinson's foray into thrillers.
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Set in Darkness
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Ian Rankin
Edinburgh, 'a mad god's dream / Fitful and dark', is about to become the home of the first Scottish parliament in nigh on three hundred years. It's a momentous time and political passions run high ...Detective Inspector John Rebus is charged with liaison, thanks to the new parliament being resident at Queensberry House bang in the middle of his St ...
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A Question of Blood
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Ian Rankin
When a former soldier shoots two students and then himself in an Edinburgh classroom, Detective Inspector John Rebus gets the case. The investigation, which starts on the gritty streets of Scotland's capitol, soon winds its way into military and governmental alleys with which Rebus is less familiar. Meanwhile, Rebus's partner is being stalked, and ...
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The Naming of the Dead
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Ian Rankin
World leaders descend on Scotland for an international conference. During a dinner at Edinburgh Castle, a delegate falls to his death. While authorities attempt to keep the incident quiet, Inspector Rebus has only 72 hours to find the answers.
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Trainspotting
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Welsh
An authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic portrait of young addicts in Edinburgh. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as are ever likely to be found in fiction.
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Resurrection men
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Ian Rankin
This 13th entry in the INSPECTOR REBUS series won the 2004 Edgar Award and was a New York Times Notable Book for 2003. Finally in serious hot water for his famously bad attitude, Inspector John Rebus is sent back to training following an incident involving a cup of coffee and his superior's face. While there, though, he has been given a task--root ...
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Dead Souls: An Inspector Rebus Novel
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Ian Rankin
Nominated for the British Crime Writers' Association's 1999 Dagger Award for Fiction.
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Marabou stork nightmares
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Irvine Welsh
Welsh's novel is a literal head trip of a book that brings us into the wildly active, albeit coma-beset, mind of Roy Strang, whose hallucinatory quest to eradicate the evil predator/scavenger marabou stork is routinely interrupted by grisly memories of the social and family dysfunction that brought him to this state.
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The falls
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Ian Rankin
A student has gone missing in Edinburgh - completely out of character. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of extremely well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until Detective Inspector John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another runaway spaced out on ...
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Starburst
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Robin Pilcher
"New York Times"-bestselling author Pilcher returns with a heartwarming and colorful story of life, love, and everything in between, set at the annual Edinburgh International Festival. Martin's Press.
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Doors Open
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Ian Rankin
For the right man, all doors are open...Mike Mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands and a bit of the devil in his soul. He is looking for something to liven up the days and perhaps give new meaning to his existence. A chance encounter at an art auction offers him the opportunity to do just that as he settles on a plot to ...
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The Right Attitude to Rain: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
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Alexander McCall Smith
When friends from Dallas arrive in Edinburgh and introduce Isabel Dalhousie to Tom Bruce--a bigwig at home in Texas--several confounding situations unfurl at once. Isabel is certain of the ethical basis for a little sleuthing now and again, especially when the problems involve matters of the heart.
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The Black Book
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Ian Rankin
When a close colleague is brutally attacked, Inspector John Rebus is drawn into a case involving a hotel fire, an unidentified body, and a long forgotten night of terror and murder. Pursued by dangerous ghosts and tormented by the coded secrets of his colleague's notebook, Rebus must piece together the most complex and confusing of jigsaws. But ...
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Mortal causes
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Ian Rankin
The last people to die in Mary King's Close had been plague victims. But that was in the 1700s. Now a body has been discovered, brutally tortured and murdered in Edinburgh's buried city. Inspector John Rebus, ex-army, spots a paramilitary link. It is August in Edinburgh, the Festival is in full swing. No one wants to contemplate terrorism in ...
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Let It Bleed
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Ian Rankin
A rash of suicides invades Edinburgh much to the chagrin of Inspector John Rebus. Are the seemingly unrelated deaths actually connected? And why is Rebus forced to take a mandatory leave in the middle of this strange and disturbing case?
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Love Over Scotland
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Alexander McCall Smith, Iain McIntosh (Illustrator)
From the bestselling author of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series comesthe third book in his popular 44 Scotland Street series.
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Death and the Lit Chick
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G M Malliet
Everyone has gathered at Dalmorton Castle in Scotland for a crime writers' conference, including Kimberlee Kalder, the publishing industry's 'It' girl. Totally hot and couture-clad, this bestselling chick-lit mystery writer has captured the envious - and resentful - attentions of all. Rumour has it that prima donna Kimberlee is shopping around for ...
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