'I'm the binge-drinking health reporter. During the week, I write about Australia's booze-soaked culture. At the weekends, I write myself off.' Booze had dominated Jill Stark's social life ever since she had...
Scotland
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Author:Johansen, IrisSummary:Iris Johansen's beloved forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is back and now the stakes are higher than ever. Dramatic changes are on the horizon for Eve and Joe Quinn and their relationship may never be the same. Faced with the task of...
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When her niece Cat travels to a wedding in Italy, Isabel agrees to fill in at Cat's delicatessen. She takes note of a customer named Ian, who is avoiding chocolate--doctors say it's bad for the new heart he recently recieved. Ian is...
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Author:Hamilton, Alice JaneSummary:This creative nonfiction biography of the celebrated Arctic explorer Dr. John Rae begins in 1854 when, on a mapping expedition to the Boothia Peninsula, Rae discovers the missing link in the Northwest Passage. On the same trip, a chance...
- Author:Parks, AlanSummary:
A man hangs himself in a neighborhood chapel. Bodies of young girls are being found in canals and rivers across the city with high levels of Mandrax in their bloodstream. McCoy is asked to watch over a colleague's niece, who has left...
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Author:Vayden, KristinSummary:Miss Miranda is not really a Miss, exactly. Nor is her name Miranda, exactly. But to escape her tyrannical Duke of a father, changes were required. Now in the Scottish countryside, employed by her new brother-in-law's unsuspecting...
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Author:Pickering, SamSummary:Part travelogue, part psychological self-study, Sam Pickering's Edinburgh Days, or Doing What I Want to Do is an open invitation to be led on a walking tour of Scotland's capital, as well as through the labyrinth of the guide's swerving...
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Author:Anderson, Lin.Summary:A young prostitute is found dead in Glasgow's city cemetery, the Necropolis, and Rhona Macleod is called in to review the forensic evidence. As the mutilated body is removed, another is revealed underneath and the case takes on an...
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Author:Winters, EdenSummary:A conqueror’s decree can’t separate Aillil Callaghan from his Scottish heritage. He wears his clan’s forbidden plaid with pride, awaiting the day he becomes laird, restores his family’s name and fights to free Scotland from English...
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In eighteenth-century Scotland, Claire Randall and her raven-haired daughter, Brianna, return to the majestic hills where Claire recalls the love of her life--gallant warrior James Fraser.
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Author:Rankin, Ian.Summary:Three friends descend upon an art auction and concoct a plan to "liberate" several paintings from the National Gallery. As enterprising girlfriends, clever detectives, a crime boss, seductive auctioneers and a Hell's...
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Author:Beaton, M. C.Summary:The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotland has been dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans--which is then shipped off to Britain's best restaurants. Soon the whole affair lands on the plate of Constable Hamish Macbeth.
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Author:Beaton, M. C.Summary:Amazing news has spread across the Scottish countryside. The most famous of highland bachelors, police sergeant Hamish Macbeth, will be married at last. Everyone in the village of Lochdubh adores Josie McSween, Macbeth's newest...
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Author:Beaton, M. C.Summary:Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth's life is going to pot. He has unwillingly been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a self-proclaimed traveler named Sean has been found dead in his camper. With nobody willing to talk, Hamish faces...
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Sergeant Hamish Macbeth faces a string of mysterious robberies that are only the beginning of an international threat to his sleepy Scottish village of Lochudch in the latest mystery in M.C. Beaton's beloved, New York Times bestselling...
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Author:Beaton, M. C.Summary:Gorgeous Jane Wetherby has asked Hamish Macbeth to spend Christmas with her and her group of friends. On arrival, though, he's met with hostile locals and uncivil guests. So when one of Jane's snobbish friends meets an untimely end,...
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Author:Beaton, M. C.Summary:When a troupe of filmmakers clambers into the Scottish town of Drim, bedlam erupts around their make-believe mystery--and culminates in the appearance of one very real corpse. Going behind the scenes, Constable Hamish Macbeth finds a...
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Author:Beaton, M. C.Summary:Rich, old practical joker Andrew Trent summons his kin to his remote home to torment them with a new bag of unfunny jokes. But this time the body that falls out of the closet is Andrew Trent's own. And nobody's laughing. Especially not...
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Author:Beaton, M. C.Summary:Paragon of housewifery Trixie Thomas moves to Lochdubh, Scotland, and quickly convinces the local ladies to embrace a healthier, more refined lifestyle. Soon the town's fish-and-chips-loving men are up in arms, and Constable Hamish...
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Author:Beaton, M. C.Summary:Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth is taking a trip to a charming seaside inn with his dog to raise his sagging spirits. However, he arrives to find the ambiance chilling, the food inedible, and his fellow guests less than neighborly. Oh...
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