Scotland Thriller

I left New York for an adventure and ran smack dab into a wall, a beautifully crafted wall of brawn and muscle. She’s from New York, and he’s from Scotland. Their worlds collide while both are visiting Turkey and, literally, run into one another. The rich, dominant philanthropist, Lord Roswell is more than happy to lend a hand and help a woman in need. That is until he learns she may be a part of those who murdered his father. Now he is keeping her close to see what he can learn regarding his father’s untimely death, but the more he is around the beautiful yogi, the more he is falling...

Another gripping thriller in the Victorian Detective’s Casebook series. Scotland Yard’s most successful detective, Richard Rayner, has finally decided to retire but then on his last day of working receives a directive from the highest government official in the land. Set in 1903, a serious threat has been made to the King’s life and both the Chief Inspector and his Sergeant, Henry Bustle, are tasked with identifying the person responsible and preventing the intended assassination. Just as the challenging Investigation commences, to add to the detective’s workload, a 20-year-old ...

Seven hundred years of waiting. One-quarter of a million days to dream of death and destruction. For seven long centuries, Luka rotted in the cave. Damned to wait in that hidden hell hole while Raso, the man who had betrayed him walked free. In the distant village, his wife grew old and passed away while his son fathered children of his own. Each generation lived and died until they too became ghosts of the past. But the unknown soldier did not forget. He counted every single bleak day, waiting for the moment when he would have his revenge. As 1965 dawned Luka surveyed the distant village ...

A condemned and wretched woman who had long given up any hope of ever being free again. The evidence that had convicted Annie Crockett of brutally murdering her husband had been overwhelming, although the body was never found, until now. After serving ten hard years in a prison hellhole the wretched woman was offered salvation by Scotland Yard’s most accomplished detective, Chief Inspector Richard Rayner, who was the first to hold doubts about her conviction. But to prove the lady’s innocence, it was necessary to find the real killer and that wasn’t going to be easy. Annie Crockett ...

It was a bit puzzling, that Chief Inspector Acton hadn’t mentioned the body they’d discovered in the burnt-out church, even though he must have known that Doyle would find it of great interest. Was the arsonist caught up in her own fire, or was there a deeper, more sinister tale told by the blackened rubble?

Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. She edits the Review of Applied Ethics, addressing such questions as "Truth telling in sexual relationships", and she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh. Behind the city's Georgian facades, its moral compasses are spinning with greed, dishonesty, and murderous intent.

Life for Bertie seems to be moving at a pace that is rather out of his control. In Drummond Place gardens, it seems that Olive has their future together all planned out. Meanwhile, upstairs at 44 Scotland Street, Bertie’s father, Stuart, is powerless to stop over-bearing Irene and her motion for Bertie to travel to Aberdeen on a three-month secondment. And, further up in the New Town, while Bruce Anderson plots with old-school chums, love blossoms in Big Lou’s Cafe.

You could have saved her. The refrain drives Angus to the seashore at dawn, where a girl lies on the unblemished sand. She wears a green cloak and cradles a corps creadha, a Highland voodoo doll. She has suffered a ritualistic, three-fold death—her head bludgeoned, her throat cut, and symbolically drowned.

St. Andrews, Scotland: Renovation works on the famous Old Course golf course uncovers the remains of a body in a shallow grave—two bullet holes in the skull. DNA confirms the victim as Rab Shepherd, the missing brother of Scotland's late crime patriarch, Jock Shepherd. But Rab pulled out of the family business over twenty years ago, and moved to Australia where he allegedly lived an honest and wealthy life. This body confirms otherwise. Why was Rab killed? And who would risk killing him, knowing he was big Jock's brother?

Lestrade panted, getting to his feet as the gang of Cheathams fell back. “Right now I can think of worse things than rescue by an amateur detective.” “My dear Lestrade, we're simply ensuring the fight is fair.” Sherlock Holmes somehow dissuaded the truth of that by the way his lips were coiling up at the edges (without letting go of the pipe in his teeth). Perhaps it was because he was clearly in disguise as a seedy deckhand in Dutchman's sailing clothes.

THIS IS SCOTLAND THE LAND OF GHOSTS There is something about the tall mountains and lonely forests that make Scotland the perfect setting for these dark and macabre stories. Maybe it is the solitude you can find within minutes of leaving the city. Maybe it’s the way the mist can quickly descend from the hills to leave you feeling alone and isolated. This is a country that remains trapped by the history of ancient past battles, a people still searching for their true identity in the world. A once proud Kingdom now ruled by others. This is Scotland, the land of ghosts. This book contains ...

FOUR SEASONS, NINE DARK TALES Step into the shadow. Who is the mysterious woman watching from a distance each time Robert goes out on a date? Why do the Snow People haunt the isolated railway station? Will Lord Blackbarron make it through 800 miles of frozen wasteland before the Ice Ghosts catch him? What is it that the baby whispers? And if you survive, then pray you never have to meet, The Tall Man. Nine stories to keep you awake at night. Nine dark tales to haunt your dreams. Love this book. Really original stories. My particular favourite is, 'What a clever baby.' So creepy. Great ...

Sam finds herself at the center of another mystery involving the Elder Watchers. Marie de Guise, once Queen regent of Scotland, has discovered that her most faithful companion from her human years was turned into a vampire... Only to vanish from the face of the Earth. With the fierce love and loyalty she had been well known for during her reign, Marie is determined to locate Antoinette and bring her home. As Marie's story unfolds, Sam and Allison find themselves halfway around the world in the countryside of France hunting for Antoinette. With the help of the Eastern Watch and a very ...

A Grand Prize trip to Scotland, an ancient ghost, a powerful artifact, and you guessed it, … a couple of corpses … the vacation of a lifetime? Drea Bishop has won the ideal grand prize trip for a lover of extreme sports like herself. Drea and her friend Shelly Whittaker from Cozy Corner, Massachusetts fly to Stonehaven, Scotland to engage in cliff climbing, mountain biking, surfing, and dodging nefarious baddies who are looking to steal an ancient artifact Drea finds in the waters by a famous castle. They enjoy the scenery, the sports, and the handsome Scottish photographer assigned to ...

Lestrade felt his heart fall through his rib-slats and hit the floor. “Bradstreet, please tell me you did not bring Mr. Holmes in while I was stark staring mad.” “What do you take me for? He came himself. Needed a clip of your hair.” “What in God's Teeth did he want with a clip of my hair?” Lestrade shouted.

It is Spring 1871 when Lizzie Ross accompanies her formidable Aunt Parry on a restorative trip to the south coast. Lizzie's husband, Ben, is kept busy at Scotland Yard and urges his wife to stay out of harm's way. But when Lizzie and her aunt are invited to dine with other guests at the home of wealthy landowner Sir Henry Meager, and he is found shot dead in his bed the next morning, no one feels safe.

"Lady Molly of Scotland Yard" is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. First published in 1910, Orczy's female detective was the precursor of the lay sleuth who relies on brains rather than brawn. As well as being one of the first novels to feature a female detective as the main character, Orczy's outstandingly successful police officer preceded her real life female counterparts by a decade.

Ex-priest DI Frank Farrell has returned to his roots in Dumfries, only to be landed with a disturbing murder case. Even worse, Farrell knows the victim: Father Boyd, the man who forced him out of the priesthood 18 years earlier. With no leads, Farrell must delve into the old priest’s past, one that is inexorably linked with his own. But his attention is diverted when a pair of twin boys go missing. The Dumfries police force recover one in an abandoned church, unharmed. But where is his brother?

To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose; it is summer in Scotland Street (as it always is) and for the habitués of Edinburgh's favourite street some extraordinary adventures lie in waiting. For the impossibly vain Bruce Anderson - he of the clove-scented hair gel - it may finally be time to settle down, and surely it can only be a question of picking the lucky winner from the hordes of his admirers....

In this second novel in the Sunday Philosophy Club, Isabel Dalhousie's niece, Cat (she of the unsuitable boyfriends) is invited to a wedding in Italy. This means that Isabel is left in charge of Cat's delicatessen: a task to which the redoutable moral philosopher proves more than equal. She is intrigued by the customers, of course, given her irrepressible tendency to take an interest in the business of others, and one man in particular attracts her attention.