A gripping historical thriller set in Inverness in the wake of the 1746 battle of Culloden from twice CWA award-winning author S. G. MacLean. Perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom and Andrew Taylor.
After Culloden,Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded,his face brutally slashed,he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades.
Six years later,with the clan chiefs routed and the Highlands subsumed into the British state,Iain lives a quiet life,working as a bookseller in Inverness. One day,after helping several of his regular customers,he notices a stranger lurking in the upper gallery of his shop,poring over his collection. But the man refuses to say what he's searching for and only leaves when Iain closes for the night.
The next morning Iain opens up shop and finds the stranger dead,his throat cut,and the murder weapon laid out in front of him - a sword with a white cockade on its hilt,the emblem of the Jacobites. With no sign of the killer,Iain wonders whether the stranger discovered what he was looking for - and whether he paid for it with his life. He soon finds himself embroiled in a web of deceit and a series of old scores to be settled in the ashes of war.
Publisher: Quercus PublishingISBN: 9781529414172Number of pages: 416Weight: 641 gDimensions: 240 x 162 x 38 mm
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'Delivers everything you could possibly want from a historical crime novel,and then gives you a bit more on top. The Jacobites are a perennially fascinating subject,the ultimate forlorn hope of history,and MacLean provides a fresh and intriguing slant on it,clearly based on rock-solid research. She paints a memorable and densely textured picture of post-Culloden Inverness and its surroundings. She's on home ground here,and it shows. Her best yet'- Andrew Taylor
'The Bookseller of Inverness is everything you could ask for from a historical thriller - gripping,immersive and filled with intriguing characters. S.G. MacLean can make any period sing with life. If you've not read her before,this is the perfect place to start'- Antonia Hodgso
'S. G. MacLean just goes from strength to strength. The Bookseller of Inverness is an intricately wrought,compulsively page-turning tale of intrigue set in a post-Rebellion Scotland so perfectly conjured and so convincing that you can smell the heather and taste the blood'- Craig Russell
'Well-written and well-plotted,MacLean is gifted with a writing style that blends literary storytelling with a fast-paced mystery'- Scottish Field
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