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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...

Sandra Ireland's psychological thriller is a spellbinding, tension packed examination of how past actions can have devastating consequences on the present.

Aberdeenshire's Fyvie Castle is steeped in history, myth and mystery. But every castle has its secrets ...come inside and share in a tale of time-travel, witchcraft, ghosts and action packed adventure.

1635, Aberdeen. A girl lies dead in a frozen garden. A young man goes missing after a drunken brawl. A sinister cloaked figure watches from the shadows. The missing student is in Alexander Seaton's class. When the young man's companion turns up bruised and bloodied, suspicion mounts that he has m...

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 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...

It only takes one spark to reignite an old mystery. DI Eve Hunter and her team are called to the scene of a fire that has destroyed a home for underprivileged children in Aberdeen. No-one knows how the blaze started; all they know is that one person didn't make it out in time. Her team have dealt...

WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2022 'To tell the story of a country or a continent is surely a great and complex undertaking; but the story of a quiet, unnoticed place where there are few people, fewer memories and almost no reliable records - a place such as Glen Conach...