Driving home from a party with his girlfriend and brother, all of them drunk and high on stolen pills, Billy Blackmore accidentally hits someone in the night. In a panic, they all decide to drive off. But the next day Billy wakes to find he has to cover the story for the local paper. It turns out the dead man was Edinburgh's biggest crime lord and, as Billy struggles with what he's done, he is sucked into a nightmare of guilt, retribution, and violence.

Hit and Run

Literature & Fiction

Johnstone, Doug

Genre Fiction

Faber&Faber

"It's just to say that no-one has come to pick Nathan up from school, and we were wondering if there was a problem of some kind?" As Mark Douglas photographs a pod of whales stranded in the waters off Edinburgh's Portobello Beach, he is called by his son's school: his wife, Lauren, hasn't turned up to collect their son. Calm at first, Mark collects Nathan and takes him home but as the hours slowly crawl by he increasingly starts to worry. With brilliantly controlled reveals, we learn some of the painful secrets of the couple's shared past, not least that it isn't the first time Lauren has disappeared. And as Mark struggles to care for his son and shield him from the truth of what's going on, the police seem dangerously short of leads. That is, until a shocking discovery...

Gone Again

The Dead Beat

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Jump

Thrillers & Suspense

Struggling to come to terms with the suicide of her teenage son, Ellie lives in the shadows of the Forth Road Bridge, lingering on its footpaths and swimming in the waters below. One day she talks down another suicidal teenager, Sam, and sees for herself a shot at redemption, the chance to atone for her son's death. But even with the best intentions, she can't foresee the situation she's falling headlong into — a troubled family, with some very dark secrets of their own. The Jump is a hugely moving contemporary thriller, and a stunning portrait of an unlikely heroine.

The Jump

Crash Land

"An unnerving tale of what happens to ordinary lives when the wheels come off." - Val McDermid Sitting in the departure lounge of Kirkwall Airport, Finn Sullivan just wants to get off the remote Scottish island of Orkney. But then he meets the mysterious and dangerous Maddie Pierce, stepping in to save her from some unwanted attention, and his life is changed forever. Set against the brutal, unforgiving landscape of Orkney, Crash Land is a psychological thriller steeped in guilt, shame, lust, deception, and murder.

Ossians

VIKING

After staying with his grandmother Ingrid on the Orkney Islands, Finn is now sitting in the departure lounge of Kirkwall Airport, eager to head back to his mainland life of university and relationship problems. Then he meets Maddie - a sophisticated and beautiful woman ten years his senior. With their flight delayed by fog, they make each other's acquaintance at the bar. Once on the tiny plane, they end up sitting together at the back, flirting. But both of them have secrets to hide. And whilst Finn merely harbours guilt about betraying his girlfriend Amy, Maddie's secrets are far more dangerous...

Ulverscroft Softcover

A Dark Matter

Isis Large Print

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