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The summer of 1908 is proving to be a busy time for Inspector Jake Fraser of the Aberdeen City Police. An Aberdeen Grammar School teacher has been murdered, a police colleague commits suicide, leaving behind a case in which Jake now believes the wrong man was sent to the gallows, the Suffragette ...

As with every other Monday morning, Ophelia Baker had gone down to the wash-house to do the weekly wash. However, she had been stopped in her tracks by the fact that someone had left a large, wooden crate in the middle of the floor. On closer inspection, Ophelia found that the crate contained wha...

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...

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...

From reports of haunted castles, hotels, public houses, chapels and churchyards, to heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists and related supernatural phenomena, this collection of stories contains both well-known and hitherto unpublished tales from around the city of Aberdeen.

What if the loss of a child was not every parent’s worst nightmare? Hamish and Alison wake to some awful news from the police banging at their door. But what if their trauma was only just beginning?

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.

Many stories have been told about the strange creature said to live on Scotland's second highest mountain. This book tells of the author's search from the Cullins to the Himalayas looking for the truth about Britain's only mountain ghost.