Scottish Islands

Three deaths. Three islands. One detective policing the place she swore she'd left behind. Detective Inspector Cat MacNeil went away to the city and came back with the city still on her, like a smell the islands can't quite place. Now she polices the Outer Hebrides — a world of cockle strands and salmon cages and machair, where everyone knows her mother's name, half of them are kin, and a body on the sand is never a stranger for long. Collected here for the first time: the first three novels in the acclaimed Hebridean crime series, atmospheric slow-burning mysteries of small islands, ...

Follow Gertie MacIntyre from knitting circle to air stewardess in this glorious and romantic summer novel set in Scotland’s windswept Northern isles, by beloved New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan. In the northernmost reaches of Scotland, where a string of little islands in the...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookshop on the Corner and The Cafe by the Sea comes another enchanting, unforgettable novel of a woman who makes a fresh start on the beautiful Scottish Island of Mure—only to discover life has more surprises in store for her. When Flora...

""Entrancing...a great escape for any reader.""--USA Today (four stars) New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan brings us a delightful summer novel that will sweep you away to the remote Scottish island of Mure, where two very different weddings are about to take place… On the little...

Scotland, 1924: When Lady Poppy Proudfoot is invited to her friend’s hotel on the Isle of Skye, she is looking forward to a holiday. But all thoughts of relaxing vanish when she discovers the body of a strangled woman in a church. The police believe the widow’s death was a robbery gone wrong, as a pendant was stolen from the scene. But Poppy is sure it’s murder. Ignoring the police’s warnings to keep her nose out, she enlists her friend Inspector MacKenzie, and her loyal Labrador, Major, to unpick the case.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Café by the Sea—whose novels are “an evocative, sweet treat” (JOJO MOYES)—comes this heartwarming holiday novel set on a charming Scottish island. On the remote Scottish island of Mure, the Christmas season is stark, windy, and icy—yet...

Another heartfelt and delightful Christmas tale from the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Bookshop on the Corner and Christmas on the Island. New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan returns to the setting of Christmas on the Island and Endless Beach for a heartwarming new...

'Lin Anderson is one of Scotland’s national treasures' – Stuart MacBride, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Logan McRae series 'The start of a very special new series' – Deon Meyer, international bestselling author of the Benny Griessel series When everyone knows your name, every case...

The beloved author of The Bookshop on the Corner returns with a sparkling, sunny, soulful new novel perfect for fans of Elin Hilderbrand. Years ago, Flora fled the quiet Scottish island where she grew up -- and she hasn't looked back. What would have done on Mure? It's a place where everyone has...

This summer, escape to the Seaside Cottages in the Scottish isles with this delightful mother-daughter story about second chances in love, life, and home renovations, by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan. EVERYONE IS SEARCHING FOR THEIR PERFECT HOUSE. BUT HOME IS REALLY WHERE THE...

New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan takes us to the gloriously windswept islands of northern Scotland, where we meet young Morag McGinty, who runs the puddle-jumper flights that serve the islands’ tiny but proudly feisty population. Morag MacIntyre is a Scottish lass from the remote...

A comprehensive and detailed look into the Scottish Highlands. Alistair Moffat tells the extraordinary story of the Highlands in the most detailed book ever written about this remarkable part of Scotland. This is the story of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland as it has never been told before...

The Complete Adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson 16 Classic Novels & Stories including Treasure Island, Kidnapped & Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson remains one of the most enduring adventure writers in the English language. This collection brings together his major novels and stories — the high-seas thrills of Treasure Island, the Scottish pursuit of Kidnapped, the psychological terror of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and more. From buried treasure and mutiny to highland intrigue, South Sea tales, and dark moral fables, Stevenson’s work combines pace, atmosphere, and ...

A body discovered by the rocks. A broken detective returns to a scene of past tragedy. Will the pain of the past prevent him from seeing the present? Detective Inspector Macleod returns to his island home twenty years after the painful loss of his wife. With a disposition forged in strong...

Celebrate the holidays with New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan’s Christmas Island Collection, featuring two novels—Christmas on the Island and Christmas at the Island Hotel—two romantic and festive tales set on a charming island off the coast of Scotland. “Losing myself in...

Olivia and Anthony are planning a very extravagant wedding at the newest hotel on the tiny Scottish island of Mure. They're flying in chefs, musicians and something called a living flower wall...and no one is even allowed to think the word bridezilla. Flora is trying—and failing—not to let Olivia and Anthony's wedding distract her from planning her own big day with Joel. But the couple have wildly different ideas about how to celebrate and somehow, just when their relationship should be plain sailing, everything is suddenly very hard indeed.

Detective Inspector Freya Tulloch has lived in Stromness all her life. She knows the families, the land disputes, the old grievances, and the things that are never said out loud. She also knows that on these islands, every death has a history, and most of the histories are older than the people involved. The Freya Tulloch Orkney Mysteries are quiet, exact, and steeped in the weight of a small island community living alongside something very old that will not stay buried. From a Canadian woman found at the foot of the cliffs below an Iron Age broch to an old sculptor laid out in his own ...

The Cartographer of Stormglass Island A forgotten island. A fraudulent map. A mystery that refuses to stay buried. When Nora Halewell opens an old atlas in the library at Greystone Manor, she expects to find maps of places that belong to the past. Instead, she finds herself drawn into the mysterious world of Stormglass Island. There, respected maps cannot be trusted. A village called Caorann has been erased from official records. Rivers appear to move between surveys. Boundaries have been altered. And somewhere among the island's cliffs lies a secret that powerful men have spent generations...

An ancient Scottish castle. A storm setting in for Christmas. A killer on the loose. Investigating a suspicious death at ancient Dumfala castle on the remote Isle of Mull is not what DI Anna Vaughan had planned this Christmas. But when she receives the call on Christmas Eve, she is duty bound to...

Detective Inspector Freya Tulloch has lived in Stromness all her life. She knows the families, the land disputes, the old grievances, and the things that are never said out loud. She also knows that on these islands, every death has a history, and most of the histories are older than the people involved. The Freya Tulloch Orkney Mysteries are quiet, exact, and steeped in the weight of a small island community living alongside something very old that will not stay buried. From a woman walking out of the sea at Birsay to a body sitting upright against a five-thousand-year-old standing stone, ...