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Luckenbooth

2022
"1910, Edinburgh. Jessie MacRae has been sent to a tenement building by her recently-deceased father to bear a child for a wealthy man and his fianc?e. The . . . events that follow lead to a curse on the building and its residents--a curse that will last for the rest of the century. Over nine decades, 10 Luckenbooth Close bears witness to emblems of a changing world outside its walls. An infamous madam, a spy, a famous Beat poet, a coal miner who fears daylight, a psychic: these are some of the residents whose lives are plagued by the building's troubled history in disparate, sometimes chilling ways. The curse creeps up the nine floors as a suppressed spirit world swells to the surface, desperate for the true horror of the building's longest kept secret to be heard"--Dust jacket flap.

Like a charm

2023
"Ramya Knox always knew she was different. Her dyspraxia makes her clumsy and prone to attracting the disapproval of her teachers. Ramya didn't know she can see magic! But when a dog statue comes to life, Ramya follows the pup and discovers a world she thought existed only in fairy tales. Trolls, witches, kelpies, vampires, and more lurk in the shadows of Edinburgh, hiding from the most dangerous creature of all: sirens. These beautiful monsters use their persuasive voice to convince those around them to do their bidding--for better or worse. As the sirens rise in power, it's up to Ramya to save the day--or the Hidden and mortal worlds might both be at risk'--Publisher.

Our lady of mysterious ailments

2022
"Desperate for money to look after her family, Ropa Moyo accepts a job at the magical private hospital Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments, but when her investigation into a coma patient leads her to the Edinburgh Ordinary School for Boys, she learns a long-dormant and malevolent entity has taken hold in this world"--OCLC.

The library of the dead

2022
Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghost talker, and she now speaks to Edinburgh's dead - carrying messages to the living - but when she learns someone is bewitching children she investigates and discovers an occult library, a taste for hidden magic, and a wealth of Edinburgh's dark secrets.

Hyde

a novel
2021
"Chief Detective Captain Edward Hyde has a strange gift, or curse, he keeps hidden from all but his personal physician. He experiences two realities: one actual, the other a dreamworld state brought on by a severe neurological condition. When Hyde finds himself at the scene of a heinous murder by the riverbank, with no inkling of how he got there or if the events leading up to the discovery, his alarm is triggered by two terrifying facts. First, the burtal crime scene involves the Threefold Death, an ancient Celtic rite of sacrifice entangled with dark Scottish spiritual mythology. Second, Hyde's inability to remember any detail of his arrival at the crime scene may indicate a strenghtening of the rare form of epilepsy he suffers from that causes him to lose time. He experiences amnesiac absences where he cannot account for his actions and nocturnal seizures that manifest as vivid and lucid dreams. With the city on edge, Captain Hyde wades blindly into the murder investigation, finding himself not only searching for real-world clues, but trying to unravel the significance of the imagery in the otherworld of his dreaming"--Provided by publisher.

The library of the dead

2021
Ropa dropped out of school to become a ghost talker, and she now speaks to Edinburgh's dead - carrying messages to the living - but when she learns someone is bewitching children she investigates and discovers an occult library, a taste for hidden magic, and a wealth of Edinburgh's dark secrets.

Resurrection men

2010
Scottish inspector John Rebus is sent back to police school for insubordination and then asked by the Scottish Crime Squad to help catch a powerful Edinburgh gangster with ties to the murder of an art dealer.

Fleshmarket Alley

2010
When the bones of a woman and child are discovered beneath a cement floor in Fleshmarket Alley, Inspector John Rebus is called to investigate and uncovers a disturbing link to a number of recent cases.

Greyfriars Bobby

A pair of children visiting Edinburgh, Scotland, learn the story of Greyfriars Bobby, a terrier so devoted to his master that he followed his master's body to Grayfriars Churchyard in 1858, and remained nearby for the next fourteen years, until he also died and was buried at his beloved master's side.

City of ghosts

2019
Ever since her near-fatal drowning, Cassidy has been able to pull back the "Veil" that separates the living from the dead and see ghosts, not that she wants to, and she was really looking forward to a ghost-free summer at the beach; however her parents are going to start filming a TV series about the world's most haunted places, starting with Edinburgh with its graveyards, castles, and restless phantoms--and Cass and her personal ghost companion, Jacob, are about to find out that a city of old ghosts can be a very dangerous place indeed.
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