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1) The chessmen
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island. This mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill - a local poacher, Fin's teenage intimate, and possessor of a long-buried secret. But when this reunion takes a violent, sinister turn and Fin puts together the fractured pieces of the past, he realizes that revealing the truth could destroy...
2) Coffin Road
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, a man washes up on a deserted beach with no knowledge of who he is or how he got there, while homicide detective George Gunn makes the ocean crossing to a remote lighthouse on a rock in the North Atlantic to investigate a brutal murder.
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beginning an investigation into a third cold case described in a book by Parisian journalist Roger Raffin, Scottish scholar and amateur detective Enzo MacLeod finds himself confronting a diagnosis of a terminal illness and attacks by someone out to frame him for murder.
4) Entry Island
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a murder rocks the isolated community of Entry Island, insomniac homicide detective Sime Mackenzie boards a light aircraft at St. Hubert airfield bound for the small, scattered chain of Magdalen Islands, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as part of an eight-officer investigation team from Montréal. Only two kilometers wide and three long, Entry Island is home to a population of just more than 100 inhabitants, the wealthiest of whom has just been...
Author
Series
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
382 pages 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Half-Scottish, half-Italian Enzo MacLeod used to be one of the top forensics experts in Scotland, and now he lives in Toulouse, working as a university professor. Divorced in Scotland and widowed in France, he has an estranged Scottish daughter and a French daughter he has raised by himself. As if his life isn't complicated enough, he soon finds himself unexpectedly in the hunt for solutions to some vexing cold cases thanks to an ill-advised wager...
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
430 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a grisly murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis that bears similarities to a brutal killing on the mainland, Edinburgh detective and native islander Fin Macleod is dispatched to the Outer Hebrides to investigate, embarking at the same time on a voyage into his own troubled past."--
Author
Series
Lewis trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
An unidentified corpse is recovered from a Lewis peat bog; the only clue to its identity being a DNA sibling match to a local farmer. But this islander, Tormod Macdonald - now an elderly man suffering from dementia - has always claimed to be an only child. When Tormod's family approach Fin Macleod for help, Fin feels duty-bound to solve the mystery.
8) Blowback
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 5
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Seven years earlier, France's top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world's culinary press to his remote restaurant in central France to make an announcement that he said would cause shockwaves in the culinary community. Speculating that Fraysse's restaurant was about to lose one of his precious Michelin stars, the reporters were shocked to find instead that the great chef had been murdered. In the end, the media left without a clue about the...
9) Runaway
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Glasgow, 2015. Jack Mackay dares not look back on a life of failure and mediocrity. The heavy-hearted sixty-seven-year-old is still haunted by what might have been. His recollections of the terrible events that befell him and his friends some fifty years earlier, and how he did not act when it mattered most is a memory he has tried to escape his entire adult life. London, 2015. A man lies dead in a one-room flat. His killer looks on, remorseless....
10) Freeze frame
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 4
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forensics expert Enzo Macleod travels to a tiny island off the coast of Brittany to honor a promise he made long ago to a dead man by investigating his 20-year-old murder. In a fascinating development, Enzo learns that the man's study--the scene of the crime--has lain untouched ever since.
11) Chinese whispers
Author
Series
Publisher
Poison Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U. S. ed.
Physical Desc
349 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The media and the terror-stricken public are demanding the arrest of the Beijing Ripper and Li Yan, the head of Beijing's serious crime squad, has been put in the spotlight. American pathologist Margaret Campbell is invited to perform an autopsy on one of the victims and her results send shockwaves through the investigation. Then Li begins receiving personal letters from the killer, and his life and career start falling apart.
12) Cast iron
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 6
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery stories. In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the West of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer heat wave, a drought exposed her remains - bleached bones amid the scorched mud and slime. No one was ever convicted of her murder. But now, forensic expert Enzo Macleod is reviewing this stone cold case - the toughest of those he has been challenged to...
13) The critic
Author
Series
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Gil Petty, the world's leading wine critic, vanishes during a tasting tour of the wine region of Gaillac. Scottish exile and former forensics expert Enzo Macleod takes on the cold case.
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 366 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Husband and wife Niamh and Ruairidh Macfarlane co-own Ranish Tweed: a Hebridean company that weaves its own special variety of Harris cloth, which has become a sought-after brand in the world of high fashion. But when Niamh learns of Ruairidh's affair with Russian designer Irina Vetrov, then witnesses the pair killed by a car bomb in Paris, her life is left in ruins. Along with her husband's remains, she returns home to the Isle of Lewis, bereft....
15) A winter grave
Author
Publisher
riverrun
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When the body of missing investigative reporter George Younger is discovered on a mountain-top near the Highland village of Kinlochleven, veteran Glasgow detective Cameron Brodie volunteers to investigate the murder, but has more than the case on his agenda.
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