While waiting outside a theater with dozens of other fans, ex-private detective and recent millionaire Jackson Brodie witnesses a shocking act of road rage that thrusts him into a world of corruption, violence, and danger that threatens his riches and his life.
being the true and spectacular history of Edinburgh's notorious Burke and Hare, and of the man of science who abetted them in the commission of their most heinous crimes
Rosner, Lisa
2010
An account of early nineteenth-century serial killers William Burke and William Hare, who were accused of killing sixteen people in Edinburgh, Scotland in order to sell their corpses to doctors as subjects for dissection.
The lives of three people come together in a small English town as Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe investigates the disappearance of a well-known doctor.
Twenty-year-old Pat, working at an Edinburgh art gallery while on sabbatical from college, becomes involved in the lives of her eccentric neighbors at 44 Scotland Street, while trying to solve the mystery of a possible lost masterpiece.
From Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Edinburgh, Scotland, thirteen-year-old Adam Adlar must elude police while being hunted by a dinosaur come-to-life from a virtual reality game invented by his father, who has gone missing.
Six-year-old Joanna was a witness to a horrific crime. Thirty years later the murderer is released from prison. Sixteen-year-old Reggie works for a doctor devoted to her infant son. When she goes missing Reggie seems to be the only person who is worried. Detective Chief Inspector Louise Monroe is also looking for a missing person. As all these lives and histories intersect, and past mistakes and current misfortunes collide, an investigation ensues that will call into question the very essence of truth.
Sherlock Holmes and Watson are summoned by Holmes' brother Mycroft, to Queen Victoria's Royal Palace of Holyrood in Edinburgh to investigate the murders of a renowned architect and his foreman only to uncover a more elaborate plot on the Queen's life.
Mark Renton and his friends view their everyday life in Edinburgh, Scotland through a heroin-induced haze that affects their minds, attitudes, and judgement.
