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1) Doors open
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Envisioning a half-serious art-theft scheme after a chance encounter with a crime boss, divorced banker Allan and frustrated art professor Robert share their idea with fellow art enthusiast Mike, who encourages them to carry out their plan.
Author
Series
Inspector Rebus novel volume 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Edinburgh investigator John Rebus pursues a case in the city's red-light district, where refugees seeking asylum in Scotland are subject to the most ruthless members of the crime world.
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author of One Good Turn presents a mystery of suspense involving the unexpected intersection of three lives, including a woman whose life had been shattered thirty years earlier, an ex-detective on a crowded train, and a teenage girl who is called upon to test her preparedness.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two years after the events of Case Histories left him a retired millionaire, Jackson Brodie has followed Julia, his occasional girlfriend and former client, to Edinburgh for its famous summer arts festival. But when he witnesses a man being brutally attacked in a traffic jam - the apparent victim of an extreme case of road rage - a chain of events is set in motion that will pull the wife of an unscrupulous real estate tycoon, a timid but successful...
Author
Series
Edinburgh nights volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Desperate for money to look after her family, Ropa Moyo accepts a job at the magical private hospital Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments. When her investigation into a coma patient leads her to the Edinburgh Ordinary School for Boys, she learns a long-dormant and malevolent entity has taken hold in this world.
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Isabel Dalhousie helps a new friend discover the identity of her father. But Isabel also manages to find time for her own concerns: her young son, Charlie, already walking and talking; her housekeeper, Grace, whose spiritualist has lately been doubling as a financial adviser; her niece Cat's latest relationship; and the pressing question of when and how Isabel and Jamie should finally get married.
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationships' - and she also hosts The Sunday Philosophers' Club at her house in Edinburgh. In this first book in McCall Smith's new series Isabel investigates how a yong man caould have fallen to his death from the top balcony of the Usher...
Author
Series
Inspector Rebus novel volume 16
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
10) Natural causes
Author
Series
Inspector McLean novel volume 1
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Edinburgh Detective Inspector Tony McLean is drawn into a set of cases separated by six decades, but connected by a macabre and brutal ritual killing"--
11) The night calls
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Young Arthur Conan Doyle, working under criminal investigation pioneer Dr. Joseph Bell, tackles the most disturbing case of his fledgling career when a serial murderer begins assaulting women in Edinburgh brothels.
Author
Series
Frey and McGray volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
1888: Edinburgh. The brutal slaying of a violinist in his home sparks a locked room murder mystery investigated by two diametrically opposed Edinburgh detectives.
13) Dead men's bones
Author
Series
Inspector McLean novel volume 4
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The murder/suicide of a prominent Scottish politician and his family brings Edinburgh-based Detective Inspector Tony McLean out to the countryside to investigate. The powers that be want a quick report and then to have the whole thing buried, but McLean believes there's more to the case than meets the eye.
14) Z. Rex
Author
Series
Hunting volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
From Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Edinburgh, Scotland, thirteen-year-old Adam Adlar must elude police while being hunted by a dinosaur come-to-life from a virtual reality game invented by his father, who has gone missing.
Author
Series
Inspector Rebus novel volume 21
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Maverick investigator John Rebus gains dangerous enemies upon reopening a cold case from the 1970s involving the murder of a wealthy socialite.
16) Northanger Abbey
Author
Series
Austen project volume 4
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this modern retelling of Austen's classic, bookish minister's daughter Cat Morland joins her well-to-do friends in Edinburgh and falls for an up-and-coming lawyer who may harbor unsettling secrets.
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie volume 6
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Encountering high-flying financier Minty Auchterlonie while attending a birthday party, Isabel learns of Minty's complicated monetary troubles and wonders if the ambitious woman is perpetuating a fraud.
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Taking on the running of her niece's deli while Cat is attending a wedding in Italy, Isabel Dalhousie encounters a recent heart transplant patient who is troubled by memories of events that never happened to him.
Author
Series
Inspector Rebus novel volume 19
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Reinstated on the force, demoted, and wearing a chip on his shoulder, Rebus reteams with internal affairs officer, Malcolm Fox, to solve a cold case from 30 years ago..
20) The complaints
Author
Series
Malcolm Fox volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Nobody likes The Complaints--they're the cops who investigate other cops. It's a department known within the force as "The Dark Side," and it's where Malcolm Fox works. His new case: investigate a cop named Jamie Breck. As Fox takes on the job, he learns that there's more to Breck than anyone thinks--dangerous knowledge, especially when a vicious murder takes place far too close to home.
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