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The Bookseller of Inverness
The Bookseller of Inverness: Superb historical thriller from prizewinning author of the Seeker series | S. G. MacLean
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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.
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charl08
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As you would expect from this author, atmospheric and pacey historical crime, rich in detail.
I was practically ready to sign up for the SNP by the end...

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The mountains looking down from either side were silent, immovable, and the glens and peoples they hid might almost be unguessed at. For a moment lain had the mad thought that they would get to the other side of the loch and discover that nothing of the past years had ever been: no rising, no marching, no battles, no vengeance, no loss.

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Anre1
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It‘s not that this wasn‘t a good book, because it was. It was just a really slow read. It did have a lot of history and I like that. There were several times I wanted to put it down and say it‘s that‘s enough but I had to finish it.

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Tove_Reads
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Is this one good? Just got it from the library 📚

Tamra If the cover is any indication it looks great! 2y
LeahBergen It sounds good! 2y
julesG Was It any good? 1y
Tove_Reads @julesG couldn‘t really get into it at all, so I simply gave up on it. 1y
julesG Thanks. I was thinking of getting it but the reviews on GR are very mixed. Guess I'll invest in a different book. 😉 1y
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