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(Fictitious character) Macbeth, Hamish Fiction Edinburgh (Scotland) Fiction Highlands (Scotland) Fiction Large type books Meurtre Enquêtes Romans, nouvelles, etc Murder Investigation Murder Investigation Fiction Police Scotland Fiction Police Scotland Highlands Fiction Scotland FictionMcDermid, Val
Summary: "It's April 2020 and Edinburgh is in lockdown. It would seem like a strange time for a cold case to go hot-the streets all but empty, an hour's outdoor exercise the maximum allowed-but a mere pandemic doesn't mean crime takes a holiday. When a source at the National Library contacts DCI Karen Pirie's team about documents in the archive of a recently deceased crime novelist, it seems it's game...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDMay, Peter
Summary: Fin Macleod returns to the outer Hebridean island of his youth to make amends and restore his parents' cottage before investigating a death involving family secrets and a sinister adversary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quercus 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M MAYHuchu, T. L.
Summary: "Everyone's favorite fifteen-year-old ghostalker, Ropa, arrives at the worldwide Society of Skeptical Enquirers' biennial conference just in time to be tied into a mystery--a locked room mystery, if an entire creepy haunted castle on lockdown counts. One of the magical attendees has stolen a valuable magical scroll. Caught between Qozmos, the high wizard of Ethiopian magic; the larger-than-life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUCMacBride, Stuart
Summary: Investigating a murdered body that may be tied to a missing persons case, Sergeant Logan McRae finds his job challenged by Aberdeen gang activity, his responsibility-eschewing former boss, and a new superintendent determined to make his life miserable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M MACBeaton, M. C.
Summary: Police Constable Hamish Macbeth investigates incidents of vandalism and violence in a quaint Scottish village that is trying to lure tourists to its newly christened "Fairy Glen.".
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Beaton 2012Beaton, M. C.
Summary: When Scotland is hit by the recession, Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices that the Highland people are forced to come up with inventive ways to lure tourists to their sleepy towns. The quaint village of Braikie doesn't have much to offer, other than a place of rare beauty called Buchan's Wood, which was bequeathed to the town. The savvy local tourist director renames the woods "The Fairy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAMcDermid, Val
Summary: "Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novels have captivated readers for over three decades. In her new novel 1979, she returns to the past with the story of an investigative journalist whose work leads her into a world of corruption, terror, and murder. It's only January, and the year has already brought blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest. But for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCDMcDermid, Val
Summary: "The UK's "Queen of Crime" Val McDermid returns to her propulsive series featuring cold case detective Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of forgery, where things are never what they seem. Still Life is intensely gripping from the first page and further proof that McDermid is writing at the top of her game. When a lobster fisherman on an early morning run pulls in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDWilliams, Beatriz
Summary: A locked room mystery and literary satire by a team of novelists: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White. There's been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite on a remote island in the Highlands of Scotland. Literary superstar Brett Saffron Presley has been found dead--under bizarre circumstances--in the castle tower's book-lined study. Years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA FIC WILBeaton, M. C.
Summary: "When Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth hears reports of a haunted castle near Drim, he assumes the eerie noises and lights reported by the villagers are just local teenagers going there to smoke pot or, worse, inject themselves with drugs. Still, Hamish decides that he and his policeman, Charlie "Clumsy" Carson, will spend the night at the ruined castle to get to the bottom of the rumors once and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Beaton 2017Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M BEAMacBride, Stuart
Summary: Detective Chief Inspector Roberta Steel got caught fitting up Jack Wallace - that's why they demoted her and quashed his sentence. Now he's back on the streets and women are being attacked again. Wallace has to be responsible, but if Detective Sergeant Steel goes anywhere near him, his lawyers will get her thrown off the force for good. The Powers That Be won't listen to her, not after what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACCarlisle, Kate
Summary: "In the middle of a Christmas holiday in Dharma, Brooklyn and Derek receive a phone call from their friend Claire in Scotland. The laird of the castle has just proposed to her! They plan to be married on New Year's Day, and they want Derek and Brooklyn to be their witnesses. While they're visiting, Claire hopes that Brooklyn will be able to solve a mystery in the castle library--twelve rare...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CARBurdette, Lucy
Summary: "Key Zest food critic Hayley Snow and her groom, police detective Nathan Bransford, chose Scotland for their long-delayed honeymoon, hoping to sightsee and enjoy some prize-winning scones. But their romantic duo swells to a crowd when they're joined by Nathan's family as well as octogenarian Miss Gloria. Nathan's sister Vera takes the women on a whirlwind tour of some of Scotland's iconic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BURBeaton, M. C.
Summary: "Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has some major problems to deal with--crimes and criminals, even law enforcement agents, that he doesn't want anywhere near his beloved Highland village in Lochdubh. Hamish is worried about how the locals...will react to his new assistant officer..Having recently become involved in identifying a Russian spy ring to solve a murder, he is aware that Bland's mission is to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Large Print 2024
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Summary: A major inquiry into a neighboring police force sees Malcolm Fox and his colleagues cast adrift, unsure of territory, protocol, or who they can trust. An entire station-house looks to have been compromised, but as Fox digs deeper he finds the trail leads him back in time to the suicide of a prominent politician and activist. There are secrets buried in the past, and reputations on the line.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RANMacBride, Stuart
Summary: "Logan McRae's personal history is hardly squeaky clean, but now that he works for Professional Standards he's policing his fellow officers. When Detective Inspector Bell turns up dead in the driver's seat of a crashed car it's a shock to everyone. Because Bell died two years ago, they buried him. Or they thought they did. As an investigation is launched into Bell's stabbing, Logan digs into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMacBride, Stuart
Summary: Welcome to the Misfit Mob. It's where Police Scotland dumps the officers it can't get rid of, but wants to: the outcasts, the troublemakers, the compromised. Officers like DC Callum MacGregor, lumbered with all the boring go-nowhere cases. So when an ancient mummy turns up at the Oldcastle tip, it's his job to find out which museum it's been stolen from. But then Callum uncovers links between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMina, Denise
Summary: "She thought she was finding her birth mother. Now she's searching for a killer. Dr. Margo Dunlop is at a crossroads. Her adoptive mom just passed away, and Margo misses her so much she can't begin to empty the house-or, it seems, get her brother on the phone. Not to mention she's newly single, secretly pregnant, and worried about her best friend's dangerous relationship. In an effort to cheer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINBeaton, M. C.
Summary: When Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth hears reports of a haunted castle near Drim, he assumes the eerie noises and lights reported by the villagers are just local teenagers going there to smoke pot or, worse, inject themselves with drugs. Still, Hamish decides that he and his policeman, Charlie "Clumsy" Carson, will spend the night at the ruined castle to get to the bottom of the rumors once and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: Revered mystery writer Josephine Tey is traveling from Scotland to London for the final week of her celebrated play Richard of Bordeaux. But joy turns to horror when her arrival coincides with the murder of a young woman she had befriended on the train ride. Tey quickly finds herself plunged into a mystery as puzzling as any of those in her own works - and Detective Inspector Archie Penrose is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: The curtain is unquestionably falling on the long, controversial career of Rankin's famous investigator. But even as Rebus prepares for retirement, he is lured into one final case involving a murdered poet and a delegation of Russian businessmen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M RANBeaton, M. C.
Summary: Hamish's new constable, Dorothy McIver, may be the most beautiful woman he's ever seen. Completely bewitched by her sparkling blue eyes, Hamish spends the summer traveling with her up and down Sutherland until finally, he can take it no longer. He gets down on one knee beside the Land Rover and begs her to marry him, and to his amazement and delight, she says yes. But just as the town of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BEARankin, Ian.
Summary: It's late in the fall in Edinburgh and late in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he is simply trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on his desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. Rebus discovers that an elite delegation of Russian businessmen is in town, looking to expand its interests. And as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RANBeaton, M. C.
Summary: Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is alarmed to receive a report from a woman in the small village of Cronish in the Scottish Highlands. She has been brutally attacked and the criminal is on the loose. But upon further investigation, Hamish discovers that she was lying about the crime. So when the same woman calls him back about an intruder, he simply marvels at her compulsion to lie. This time, though,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015