Journalist Shona Sandison investigates sinister crimes forged in the shadows of Edinburgh’s buried past. After being caught in a deadly blast that rips through the city’s Old Town, Sandison unearths a...

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The late, great genre writer colored outside the lines. So do these recent books.

The Diary of Lies (ISBN: 9781846976841) A fearless Scottish journalist grapples with shady contacts and even shadier circumstances to expose an evil governmental plan.

Philip Miller's sinister thriller is set in a Great Britain that's lost its bearings. But even when she's terrified, fictional journalist Shona Sandison will always risk everything to get the story.

Winner of the Shamus Award for the Best First P.I. Novel The Goldenacre – a masterpiece by the painter and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh – has been given to the people of Scotland. The beautiful...

For much of the second half of his life, T.S. Eliot was a man on the run, retreating to actual or symbolic boltholes,...

Philip Miller's sinister thriller is set in a Great Britain that's lost its bearings. But even when she's terrified, fictional journalist Shona Sandison will always risk everything to get the story.

Kirkcudbright Book Festival March 5-8th 2026 Programme