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Cast a cold eye / Robbie Morrison.

Glasgow, 1933. Murder is nothing new in the Depression-era city, especially to war veterans Inspector Jimmy Dreghorn and his partner 'Bonnie' Archie McDaid. But the dead man found in a narrowboat on the Forth and Clyde Canal, executed with a single shot to the back of the head, is no ordinary killing. Violence usually erupts in the heat of the moment - the razor-gangs that stalk the streets settle scores with knives and fists. Firearms suggest something more sinister, especially when the killer strikes again. Meanwhile, other forces are stirring within the city. A suspected IRA cell is at large, embedded within the criminal gangs and attracting the ruthless attention of Special Branch agents from London.
Author: Morrison, Robbie
Published: London : Macmillan, 2023.
464 pages : map (black and white) ; 24 cm
Jimmy Dreghorn series
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Arthurstone Library - (Dundee) - Adult Fiction - Scottish Collection - Available - C01096788X
Broughty Ferry Library - (Dundee) - Adult Fiction - Scottish Collection - Available - C01069068X
Charleston Library - (Dundee) - Adult Fiction - Scottish Collection - Available - C01098062X
Coldside Library - (Dundee) - Adult Fiction - Scottish Collection - Available - C01097331X
Fintry Library - (Dundee) - Adult Fiction - Scottish Collection - Available - C01097238X
Leisure Reading Centre - (Dundee) - Adult Fiction - Scottish Collection - Available - C01069139X

The maiden / Kate Foster.

Edinburgh, October 1679. Lady Christian Nimmo is arrested and charged with the murder of her lover, James Forrester. News of her imprisonment and subsequent trial is splashed across the broadsides, with headlines that leave little room for doubt: Adulteress. Whore. Murderess. Only a year before, Christian was leading a life of privilege and respectability. So, what led her to risk everything for an affair? And does that make her guilty of murder? She wasn't the only woman in Forrester's life, and certainly not the only one who might have had cause to wish him dead.
Author: Foster, Kate
Published: London : Mantle, 2023.
388 pages ; 23 cm
Average rating: (1 review)

Douglas Library - (Dundee) - Adult Fiction - Scottish Collection - Available - C01098584X
Leisure Reading Centre - (Dundee) - Adult Fiction - Scottish Collection - Available - C01096881X

The bandit queens / Parini Shroff.

For Geeta, life as a widow is more peaceful than life as a wife. Until the other women in her village decide they want to be widows, too. Geeta is believed to have killed her vanished husband - a rumour she hasn't bothered trying to correct, because a reputation like that can keep a single woman safe in rural India. But when she's approached for help in ridding another wife of her abusive drunk of a husband, her reluctant agreement sets in motion a chain of events that will change the lives of all the women in the village.
Author: Shroff, Parini
Published: London : Allen & Unwin, 2023.
340 pages ; 24 cm
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Leisure Reading Centre - (Dundee) - Adult Fiction - Available - C01069112X

The running grave / Robert Galbraith.

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organisation that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths. In order to try to rescue Will, Strike's business partner Robin Ellacott decides to infiltrate the cult and she travels to Norfolk to live incognito amongst them. But in doing so, she is unprepared for the dangers that await her there or for the toll it will take on her.
Author: Galbraith, Robert
Published: London : Sphere, 2023.
945 pages ; 24 cm.
Strike
Strike ; 7
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Wrong place, wrong time / Gillian McAllister.

It's every parent's nightmare. Your happy, funny, innocent son commits a terrible crime: murdering a complete stranger. You don't know who. You don't know why. You only know your teenage boy is in custody and his future lost. That night you fall asleep in despair. Until you wake - and it is yesterday. Every morning you wake up a day earlier, another day before the murder. Another chance to stop it. Somewhere in the past lie the answers - and you don't have a choice but to find them.
Author: McAllister, Gillian
Published: UK : Michael Joseph, 2022.
420 pages ; 24 cm
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Broughty Ferry Library - (Dundee) - Adult Fiction - Onloan - Due: 18 Dec 2023 - C01071482X
Charleston Library - (Dundee) - Adult Fiction - Available - C01071580X
Kirkton Library - (Dundee) - Adult Fiction - In-transit from Opportunities Room to Kirkton Library (Set: 23 Jan 2023) - C01073127X
Leisure Reading Centre - (Dundee) - Adult Fiction - Available - C01071728X
Lochee Library - (Dundee) - Adult Fiction - Available - C01073009X
Whitfield Library - (Dundee) - Adult Fiction - Available - C01072921X

Rise of the School for Good and Evil / Soman Chainani ; illustrations by RaidesArt.

The battle between Good and Evil begins. Two brothers. One Good. One Evil. Together, they watch over the Endless Woods. Together, they choose the students for the School for Good and Evil. Together they train them, teach them, prepare them for their fate. Then, something happens. Something unexpected. Something powerful. Something that will change everything and everyone. Who will survive? Who will rule the School? The journey starts here. Every step is filled with magic, surprises, and daring deeds that test courage, loyalty, and who you really are. But they only lead you to the very beginning of the adventures that are the School for Good and Evil.
Author: Chainani, Soman
Published: London : HarperCollins Children's Books, 2022.
361 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
School for Good and Evil ; 7.
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Children's Centre - (Dundee) - Children's Fiction - Available - C01075280X