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Crime books set in Scotland ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐
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items A mix of true crime stories, from the really gruesome and disturbing to a selection of crime fiction books all set in Scotland.
Tartan Noir is a genre worthy of tapping into and this list showcases some to get you started.
My favourite tends to cen...
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True Crime
Historical Fiction
Historical fiction and thrillers.
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Arguably Ann Cleeves most well known work. Raven introducing Inspector Jimmy Perez on the remote islands of Shetland.
On New Yearโs Day, Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a vivid splash ...
Raven Black: Detective Jimmy Perez, Shetland 1
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Mrs Burke & Mrs Hare is a well written historical fiction book that delves into the women involved in the famous Burke and Hare crimes.
Two women implicated in their crimes but both with very different stories to tell. I loved this book, the det...
Mrs Burke & Mrs Hare: They Got Away With Murder
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This crime fiction book is set in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland and focuses on Detective Fraser Brodie.
He finds Simon Carver's body brutally carved up. In an even more sick twist, the man's tongue has been removed.
The last time people witnessed ...
Bury Your Secrets: Scottish Crime Thriller 1
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Stuart McBride is an icon in the Scottish crime writing world here and this book is a gripping thriller to start with.
All Detective Constable Edward Reekie had to do was pick up a dying prisoner from HMP Grampian and deliver him somewhere to live o...
The Dead of Winter: Scottish Detective Thriller
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This gripping thriller provides twists and turns and is an absolute page turner.
The disappearance of a three-year-old girl from her isolated home in the Scottish Highlands shook the nation. Three years later, the world may have forgotten the blond-...
The Girl in the Loch: Scottish Murder Mystery
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This historical fiction book details life in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1910.
Jessie, the devil's daughter, arrives on the doorstep of an imposing tenement building and knocks on a freshly painted wooden door. She has been sent by her father to bear a ...
Luckenbooth: Jenni Fagan
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Ian Rankin's Rebus is a Scottish crime classic. Here I have linked the full Rebus collection.
The story of Detective Inspector John Rebus is not a man easily intimidated, political heavyweights start to lean on the dour, moralistic Edinburgh detectiv...
Ian Rankin Rebus Novel Series 10-Book Set
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If you are familiar with BBC Scotland's Shetland Crime TV drama this is the book that started it all.
A man with no memory is found dead and suspicion clouds the community. Inspector Jimmy Perez must hunt for a calculating killer.
White Nights: Ann Cleeves (Writer of Shetland).
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This book is a collection of crime stories from some well known writers in Scotland, including Val McDermid, Ann Cleves and Stuart Macbride.
From murder in an ancient broch and a macabre tale of revenge among the furious clamour of an eighteenth cent...
Bloody Scotland
True Crime
Real life true crime stories in Scotland
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This book covers many different cases in small manageable sections.
Throughout the city in places you would have no idea about, gruesome crimes were committed.
Read about Edinburgh's many forgotten murders, where only the murder house remains to tel...
Murder Houses of Edinburgh
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Set in an Edinburgh New Town townhouse, 66 Queen Street to be exact. This book tells the story of people and events associated with the house for 210 years from 1790 and whose lives were empowered by the Scottish Enlightenment.
An interesting reside...
66 The House that Viewed the World
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This complex case of Arlene Fraser and her suspicious disappearance will get you thinking. This is a true story from the mid 1990's.
Set in Elgin, in a small town in the North East this book will make you wonder if she was murdered , and if so by wh...
Murdered or Missing?: The Arlene Fraser Case
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This powerful read details the true extent of the crime and gang culture in Glasgow from the 1970's.
The book tells the story of city's gangland violence from the bloody turf wars, extortion and religious battles to the rise in drug dealing today.
Gangland Glasgow: True Crime from the Streets
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This book details the true story of what really happened when two Irish men, Mr Burke & Mr Hare began their body snatching activities in Victorian era Edinburgh. This investigation book mentions their trial, the court proceedings and the hysteria...
Burke and Hare: True Story of Edinburgh Murderers
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True crime stories from Aberdeen in the North East of Scotland.The well researched book explores the area's underworld and features the grave-robbers, jail-breakers, rioters and other lawbreakers whose crimes led them to premature deaths at the end o...
Hangman's Brae: True Crime & Punishment NE
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This book details the gruesome murders of two young women living in Edinburgh in the 1970's. Tom Wood was part of the police force and detective team at the time and details his findings on who committed these crimes.
The World's End Murders: The Final Verdict