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- Cold earth / by Cleeves, Ann,author.;
In the dark days of a Shetland winter, torrential rain triggers a landslide that crosses the main Lerwick-Sumburgh road and sweeps down to the sea. At the burial of his old friend Magnus Tait, Jimmy Perez watches the flood of mud and peaty water smash through a croft house in its path. Everyone thinks the croft is uninhabited, but in the wreckage he finds the body of a dark-haired woman wearing a red silk dress. In his mind, she shares his Mediterranean ancestry and soon he becomes obsessed with tracing her identity. Then it emerges that she was already dead before the landslide hit the house. Perez knows he must find out who she was, and how she died.- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Perez, Jimmy (Fictitious character); Murder; Police;
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- Clear : a novel / by Davies, Carys,author.;
"John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland--Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted. Shortly after John reaches the island, he falls down a cliff and is found, unconscious and badly injured, by Ivar who takes him home and tends to his wounds. The two men do not speak a common language, but as John builds a dictionary of Ivar's world, they learn to communicate and, as Ivar sees himself for the first time in decades reflected through the eyes of another person, they build a fragile, unusual connection. Unfolding in the 1840s in the final stages of the infamous Scottish Clearances--which saw whole communities of the rural poor driven off the land in a relentless program of forced evictions--this singular, beautiful, deeply surprising novel explores the differences and connections between us, the way history shapes our deepest convictions, and how the human spirit can survive despite all odds. Moving and unpredictable, sensitive and spellbinding, Clear is a profound and pleasurable read."--- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Eviction; Hermits; Interpersonal relations; Islands; Rural poor;
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- Monarch of the glen. [videorecording] / by Bennett, Edward.; Briers, Richard.; Chaplin, Michael.; Hampshire, Susan,1942-; Leonard, Niall.; MacKenzie, Alastair.; MacKenzie, Compton,Sir,1883-1972.Monarch of the glen.Videorecording.; Pitt, Nick.; BBC Video (Firm); British Broadcasting Corporation.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Produced by Nick Pitt; directed by Edward Bennett; written by Michael Chaplin, Niall Leonard; music by Simon Brint.Richard Briers, Susan Hampshire, Alastair MacKenzie.Archie's brother Paul returns to Glenbogle and is enlisted into helping to run the estate. Although this brings him into conflict with Archie and Lexie, it also allows Archie to think about his role and the world beyond Glenbogle.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.- Subjects: MacKenzie, Compton, Sir, 1883-1972.; Clans; Communities; Land tenure; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
- © c2010., BBC Video ; Distributed by Warner Home Video,
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- Now we are dead / by MacBride, Stuart,author.;
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- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Murder; Police;
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- Highland treasure / by Sands, Lynsay.;
Rescued from an English dungeon and escorted to safety in the Highlands, a traumatized Lady Elysande de Valance falls in love with a Scottish clan's healer and leader, Rory Buchanan, who is too busy to consider matrimony.- Subjects: Romance fiction.; Historical fiction.; Man-woman relationships;
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- Hit me with your best Scot / by Enoch, Suzanne.;
Coll MacTaggert, Viscount Glendarril, is a big, brawny Highlander who doesn't like being told what to do--not even by his exasperated English mother who is determined to see her eldest son wedded and bedded. However, when he comes to the rescue of an irresistibly beautiful woman, Coll discovers that he may have found his perfect match...The challenge isn't that Persephone Jones is famous, wealthy, independent, and smarter than anyone he knows. The problem is that she isn't interested in marrying any man--especially not a hot-headed Scot--even if he is the only man who seems to understand who she really is even when she's not sure herself. When Coll learns that Persephone is actually a lady-in-hiding and someone is willing to kill her for what she stands to inherit...Well, Coll has never been one to turn down a fight. When hearts are involved, nothing comes between a Highlander and his lady.- Subjects: Romance fiction.; Historical fiction.; Man-woman relationships;
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- Dark blood / by MacBride, Stuart.;
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- Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; McRae, Logan (Fictitious character); Police; Rapists;
- © 2010., HarperCollins,
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- Strangers at the gate / by McPherson, Catriona,1965-author.;
"From Catriona McPherson, Agatha Award-winning author of Quiet Neighbors, comes Strangers at the Gate: a twisty, fascinating mystery that asks the question: who do you turn to when everyone's a stranger and you've stopped believing your own eyes? Finnie Doyle and Paddy Lamb are leaving city life in Edinburgh behind them and moving to the little town of Simmerton. Paddy's been made partner at the law firm in town, and Finnie has snagged a job as a church deacon. Their rented cottage is quaint; their new colleagues are charming, and they can't believe their luck. But only days after moving into the gate house, Finnie begins to have doubts. She keeps hearing strange sounds, and the thicket of trees make her feel claustrophobic rather than safe. When they witness the bloody aftermath of a brutal murder, it changes everything. They've each been keeping secrets about their pasts. And they both know their precious new start won't survive a scandal. Together, for the best of reasons, they make the worst decision of their lives. And that's only the beginning. The deep, deep valley where Simmerton sits is unlike anywhere Finnie and Paddy have been before. They are not the only ones hiding in its shadow and very soon they've lost control of the game they decided to play."--- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); City and town life; Haunted places; Secrecy; Villages;
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- The cage / by Jardine, Quintin,author.; container of (work):Jardine, Quintin.Skinner's elves.;
On a sunny seaside August morning, a woman on maternity leave spots a body wedged in rocks on a Scottish beach. Gavin Ayre's riding gear sparks the assumption that he had been thrown by a panicked horse ... until an autopsy reveals this was no accident. Soon it becomes clear that Ayre's life was as big a mystery as his death. Detective Superintendent Harold 'Sauce' Haddock heads an investigation that is running into the sand, until a link is revealed between the victim and another man in Spain, with a surprisingly similar name. Faced with the twin puzzle Sauce turns to his mentor, Bob Skinner, moved on from the police service to head an international media group. Soon the two friends are at the heart of a multi-layered conspiracy, as they search for the answer to the prime question ... who killed Gavin Ayre?- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Ex-police officers; Murder; Police; Skinner, Bob (Fictitious character);
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- Monarch of the glen. [videorecording] / by Bennett, Edward.; Briers, Richard.; Chaplin, Michael.; Hampshire, Susan,1942-; Leonard, Niall.; MacKenzie, Alastair.; MacKenzie, Compton,Sir,1883-1972.Monarch of the glen.Videorecording.; Pitt, Nick.; BBC Video (Firm); British Broadcasting Corporation.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Produced by Nick Pitt; directed by Edward Bennett; written by Michael Chaplin, Niall Leonard; music by Simon Brint.Richard Briers, Susan Hampshire, Alastair MacKenzie.Meet handsome Archie MacDonald, a reluctant young Scottish laird torn between his trendy London life and the call of his wild highland ancestry. You'll be seduced by breathtaking scenery, marvelously original and amusing scripts, and eccentric, thoroughly lovable characters.PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation.- Subjects: MacKenzie, Compton, Sir, 1883-1972.; Clans; Communities; Land tenure; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
- © c2010., BBC Video ; Distributed by Warner Home Video,
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