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Maddy Shannon mysteries volume 1
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In Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park, the bodies of two youths lie with bullet holes in their heads. Hungover, nicotine-starved and ill-attired, procurator fiscal Maddy Shannon attends the scene, unaware that this grim morning is about to spiral out of control. The corpses have been carefully disfigured, perhaps signs of gangland revenge or, worse, ritual slayings. Motives and suspects are hard to find. It soon becomes clear that this disturbing case will...
Author
Series
Paddy Meehan novels volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
360 p. ; 25 cm.
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"Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all odds Mungo and James become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing...
Author
Series
Paddy Meehan novels volume 2
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7 hrs.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Alex Morrow novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
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"It's the week before Christmas when a lone robber bursts into a busy Glasgow post office carrying an AK-47. An elderly man suddenly hands his young grandson to a stranger and wordlessly helps the gunman fill bags with cash, then carries them to the door. He opens the door and bows his head; the robber fires off the AK-47, tearing the grandfather in two. DS Alex Morrow arrives on the scene and finds that the alarm system had been disabled before...
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Refusing to believe that his psychologist wife is guilty of the murder of a paroled serial killer, Lachlan Harriot searches his wife's home office for proof of her innocence and discovers unsettling clues that prompt him to search for the truth.
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Series
Alex Morrow novels volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Preparing to testify against a violent arms dealer, police detective Alex Morrow finds her efforts challenged by a privileged Scottish lawyer's money laundering scheme and a vengeful woman prisoner.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
ix, 291 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Newly appointed security consultant Nate Colgan finds himself at a crossroads in a power war involving a mysterious rival gang and the mother of his child, while a highly skilled detective inspector investigates local uprisings to prevent a full-scale organizational war.
Author
Series
Paddy Meehan novels volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
When an ex-boyfriend and fellow journalist is found murdered, reporter Paddy Meehan is shocked to learn that the victim has left her his home, where she discovers suitcases filled with incriminating notes.
10) The heretic
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McCormack has returned to Glasgow after a stint with the Metropolitan Police in London. He is investigating a series of murders that seem at first to be the result of random bouts of violence among Glasgow's poor and destitute. McCormack, however, has insight into Glasgow's underground that many of his colleagues don't. He has a secret of his own that he guards carefully but that takes him places and introduces him to people that prove essential to...
11) Runaway
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Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A failed Glasgow musician looks back on the half century that has passed since he convinced four friends to run away with him as ambitious teens and is haunted by the memory of a traumatizing event. Meanwhile a murderer in London embarks on a nightmarish spree.
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Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 21 cm.
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Eck Adamson, an alcoholic vagrant, summons Jack Laidlaw to his deathbed. Probably the only policeman in Glasgow who would bother to respond, Laidlaw sees in Eck's cryptic last message a clue to the murder of a gangland thug and the disappearance of a student. With stubborn integrity, Laidlaw tracks down a seam of corruption that runs through all levels of Glaswegian society.
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"Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"In 1950's Glasgow, a household of women were found slaughtered in their beds. The father, William Watt, had a cast iron alibi but police were convinced he was guilty. Determined to clear his name, Watt let it be known that he would pay for information. Step forward career criminal Peter Manuel, with compelling details only the murderer could know. Watt agreed to meet him. They spent twelve hours together, driving and drinking in Glasgow pubs and...
15) Gillespie and I
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
504 p. ;
Description
As she sits in her Bloomsbury home with her two pet birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter recounts the story of her friendship with Ned Gillespie--a talented artist whose life came to a tragic end before he ever achieved the fame and recognition that Harriet maintains he deserved. In 1888, young Harriet arrives in Glasgow during the International Exhibition. After a chance encounter with Ned, she befriends the Gillespie family and soon becomes...
16) Laidlaw
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Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Meet Jack Laidlaw, the original damaged detective. When a young woman is found brutally murdered on Glasgow Green, only Laidlaw stands a chance of finding her murderer from among the hard men gangland villains and self-made moneymen who lurk in the city's shadows.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning--and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala's long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she...
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Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xi, 382 pages ; 22 cm
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"It begins with two deaths: a money-man and a police informant. Deaths that offer a unique opportunity to a man like Calum MacLean. A hit man who has finally had enough of killing. Calum plans an unprecedented escape just as his employers need him the most. Glasgow's biggest criminal organizations are gearing up for a final, fatal confrontation. The panic over Calum's abrupt disappearance may finally give Detective Michael Fisher the chance he need...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mullholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
360, 10, 8 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"How does a gunman retire? Frank MacLeod was the best at what he does. Thoughtful. Efficient. Ruthless. But with his health failing him, how long before he's no longer of use to his employers? A new job. A target. But something is about to go horribly wrong. And up-and-coming hitman Calum MacLean will be called upon to pick up the pieces. Most gunmen say goodbye to the world with a bang. Frank's still here. No longer in his prime, certainly. But with...
20) The Quaker
Author
Series
Conway trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
Duncan McCormick, a talented young detective from the Highlands, is brought into the investigation to identify where, exactly, it’s gone wrong. An outsider with troubling secrets of his own, DI McCormack has few friends in his adopted city and a lot to prove. His arrival is met with anger and distrust by cops who are desperate to nail a suspect. When they identify a petty thief as the man seen leaving the building where the Quaker’s last victim...
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