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Slains Castle, a remote castle in the north of Scotland with shadowy links to Bram Stoker and Dracula. A castle with secrets. Big secrets. Secrets now revealed in a series of extraordinary stories. Although reading like a thriller, Slains Castle's Secret History is not fiction. Everything in this...

It is 1868, and a 22-year-old Bram Stoker has locked himself inside an abbey's tower to face off against a vile and ungodly beast. He is armed with mirrors and crucifixes and holy water and a gun - and is kept company by a bottle of plum brandy. His fervent prayer is that he will survive this one...

How do our roots in the land define us? Hidden in the breath-taking mountains of wild Scotland, Glen Conach is the home of secrets and stories, of fables and folklore. Over hundreds of years, three lives are woven together. In ancient Britain, the hermit Saint Conach performs impossible miracles,...

This historical thriller sweeps Alexander Seaton back to his roots in troublesome Ulster, and a family he might prefer never to have met.

Is the young man merely drunk or does his tottering walk suggest something more sinister? When he collapses, vomiting, over the two prostitutes who find him on that dark wet night, they guess rightly that he's been murdered by poisoning. So begins this tale set in the town of Banff, Scotland in t...

Is the young man merely drunk or does his tottering walk suggest something more sinister? When he collapses in front of two sisters on that dark, wet night, they guess rightly that he's been murdered by poisoning. So begins this tale set in the town of Banff, Scotland in the 1620s.

It's DS Logan McRae's first day back on the job after a year off on the sick, and it couldn't get much worse. Four year old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch, strangled, mutilated and a long time dead. There's a killer stalking the Granite City and the local media are baying for blood.

This book traces the history of crime and punishment in Aberdeen until the end of the century. Witch-burnings, beheadings, hangings and terrible riots are vividly described.

It is Midsummer, 1631. While Alexander Seaton and his fellow masters enjoy the holiday with their students, Robert Sim, librarian of Marischal College, is murdered in a dark alleyway in town. While the university and town authorities investigate the murder, Seaton is asked by the college principa...

A brutal murder - a young woman's body is discovered with horrifying injuries, a recent newspaper cutting pinned to her clothing. A detective with everything to prove - this is her only chance to redeem herself. A serial killer with nothing to lose - he's waited years, and his reign of terror has...