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Cast a cold eye / Robbie Morrison.

Glasgow, 1933. Murder is nothing new in the Depression-era city, especially to war veterans Inspector Jimmy Dreghorn and his partner 'Bonnie' Archie McDaid. But the dead man found in a narrowboat on the Forth and Clyde Canal, executed with a single shot to the back of the head, is no ordinary killing. Violence usually erupts in the heat of the moment - the razor-gangs that stalk the streets settle scores with knives and fists. Firearms suggest something more sinister, especially when the killer strikes again. Meanwhile, other forces are stirring within the city. A suspected IRA cell is at large, embedded within the criminal gangs and attracting the ruthless attention of Special Branch agents from London.
Author: Morrison, Robbie
Published: London : Macmillan, 2023.
464 pages : map (black and white) ; 24 cm
Jimmy Dreghorn series
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Ellon Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Mystery - MYS - Onloan - Due: 22 Dec 2023 - 4051900
Strichen Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Mystery - MYS - Onloan - Due: 23 Dec 2023 - 4051901

The maiden / Kate Foster.

Edinburgh, October 1679. Lady Christian Nimmo is arrested and charged with the murder of her lover, James Forrester. News of her imprisonment and subsequent trial is splashed across the broadsides, with headlines that leave little room for doubt: Adulteress. Whore. Murderess. Only a year before, Christian was leading a life of privilege and respectability. So, what led her to risk everything for an affair? And does that make her guilty of murder? She wasn't the only woman in Forrester's life, and certainly not the only one who might have had cause to wish him dead.
Author: Foster, Kate
Published: London : Mantle, 2023.
388 pages ; 23 cm
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1 reserve

Fraserburgh Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - In-transit from Fraserburgh Library to Kintore Library (Set: 24 Nov 2023) - 4053053

The bandit queens / Parini Shroff.

For Geeta, life as a widow is more peaceful than life as a wife. Until the other women in her village decide they want to be widows, too. Geeta is believed to have killed her vanished husband - a rumour she hasn't bothered trying to correct, because a reputation like that can keep a single woman safe in rural India. But when she's approached for help in ridding another wife of her abusive drunk of a husband, her reluctant agreement sets in motion a chain of events that will change the lives of all the women in the village.
Author: Shroff, Parini
Published: London : Allen & Unwin, 2023.
340 pages ; 24 cm
Average rating: (1 review)
1 reserve

Alford Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Onloan - Due: 19 Dec 2023 - 4056981
Huntly Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Onloan - Due: 27 Dec 2023 - 4056980

The running grave / Robert Galbraith.

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organisation that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths. In order to try to rescue Will, Strike's business partner Robin Ellacott decides to infiltrate the cult and she travels to Norfolk to live incognito amongst them. But in doing so, she is unprepared for the dangers that await her there or for the toll it will take on her.
Author: Galbraith, Robert
Published: London : Sphere, 2023.
945 pages ; 24 cm.
Strike
Strike ; 7
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47 reserves

Banchory Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Mystery - MYS - Onloan - Due: 04 Dec 2023 - 4060113
Banchory Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Mystery - MYS - Onloan - Due: 04 Dec 2023 - 4060456
Ellon Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Mystery - MYS - On reserve shelf at Ellon Library - 4060457
Fraserburgh Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Mystery - MYS - Onloan - Due: 08 Dec 2023 - 4060114
Kemnay Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Mystery - MYS - Onloan - Due: 12 Dec 2023 - 4060112
Kemnay Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Mystery - MYS - In-transit from Kemnay Library to Fraserburgh Library (Set: 29 Nov 2023) - 4060461
Portlethen Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Mystery - MYS - On reserve shelf at Portlethen Library - 4060460
Stonehaven Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Mystery - MYS - In-transit from Stonehaven Library to Inverbervie Library (Set: 01 Dec 2023) - 4060115
Westhill Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Mystery - MYS - On reserve shelf at Westhill Library - 4060458
Westhill Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Mystery - MYS - In-transit from Westhill Library to Aboyne Library (Set: 23 Nov 2023) - 4060459

Wrong place, wrong time / Gillian McAllister.

It's every parent's nightmare. Your happy, funny, innocent son commits a terrible crime: murdering a complete stranger. You don't know who. You don't know why. You only know your teenage boy is in custody and his future lost. That night you fall asleep in despair. Until you wake - and it is yesterday. Every morning you wake up a day earlier, another day before the murder. Another chance to stop it. Somewhere in the past lie the answers - and you don't have a choice but to find them.
Author: McAllister, Gillian
Published: UK : Michael Joseph, 2022.
420 pages ; 24 cm
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Banchory Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Available - 4039769
Banchory Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Available - 2143761
HQ-Circulation - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Available - 4039001
Huntly Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Available - 4039768
Newmachar Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Available - 2139166
Strichen Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT - Available - 4039771
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Rise of the School for Good and Evil / Soman Chainani ; illustrations by RaidesArt.

The battle between Good and Evil begins. Two brothers. One Good. One Evil. Together, they watch over the Endless Woods. Together, they choose the students for the School for Good and Evil. Together they train them, teach them, prepare them for their fate. Then, something happens. Something unexpected. Something powerful. Something that will change everything and everyone. Who will survive? Who will rule the School? The journey starts here. Every step is filled with magic, surprises, and daring deeds that test courage, loyalty, and who you really are. But they only lead you to the very beginning of the adventures that are the School for Good and Evil.
Author: Chainani, Soman
Published: London : HarperCollins Children's Books, 2022.
361 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
School for Good and Evil ; 7.
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Boddam Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Junior Fiction - JF - Available - 4039167
HQ-Young People Services - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Junior Fiction - JF - Onloan - Due: 08 Dec 2023 - 4039169

A kiss from Mr Fitzgerald / Natasha Lester.

Author: Lester, Natasha
Published: Australia : Hachette, 2017.
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Strichen Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Fiction - FT Pbk - Available - 2103960

All things sweet : 100 deliciously sweet recipes for every occasion / Rachel Allen.

Rachel Allen's 'Sweet Things' will satisfy even the sweetest sweet tooth. Featuring 100 mouthwatering recipes and lavish photography of the finished dishes, this is a decadent journey through home made delights, from indulgent puddings and classic cakes to delicate pastries, luxurious mousses, delectable ice creams and much more.
Author: Allen, Rachel, 1971-
Published: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014.
Published: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014.
270 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm
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Westhill Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Non-Fiction - 641.86 - Available - 3148152

Pennine walkies / Mark Wallington.

Author: Wallington, Mark
Large print ed.
Published: Oxford : ISIS, 1997.
228p. ; 24 cm.
Average rating: (1 review)

Strichen Library - (Aberdeenshire Libraries) - Large Print Non-Fiction - 914.2 - Available - 1084320