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  • Location: Unst, Shetland islands

Thin Air (Shetland 6)

2000s: The Shetland novel located at the furthest point north on the map – Unst. Problems of modernity versus the old ways come to the…

  • Location: Isle of Lewis, Uig

The Chessmen (Lewis Trilogy 3)

2000s:  ‘Look back with regret, look forward with fear’

  • Location: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, The Shetland Islands

Black and Blue (Rebus 8)

2000s: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen – Rebus style

  • Location: Outer Hebrides, Inner Hebrides

The Visitors

Destination: Hebrides   Departure Time: 2000s This book brings the mythical and creepy nature of the Scottish islands to life.

  • Location: Isle of Harris

Secrets of the Sea House

1860s, 1990s: Based on a real nineteenth-century letter to The Times in which a Scottish clergyman claimed to have seen a mermaid…

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The Convenience Store by the Sea

2000s: Welcome to Tenderness, Japan!

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