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Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'Alanna Knight could hardly be better' Ian Rankin When Tam Eildor arrives unexpectedly on a remote Scottish island in the year 1587 after his time machine develops a fault, he quickly finds himself embroiled in the lives of... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Autumn, 1897. Rose McQuinn has lost the love of her ambitious fiance, Jack Macmerry, and now it seems she is to lose her elusive deerhound as well. Hubert Staines claims his fatally ill stepdaughter is Thane's rightful... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
For Rose McQuinn the invitation to holiday at a luxury hotel on the isle of Bute is an unexpected delight until she discovers the real reason is to investigate a twenty year old non-proven murder case. With close links to a... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
It is 1897 and three years have passed since Rose McQuinn's husband, Danny, disappeared in Arizona. Believing him to be dead, she returned to Scotland to start her life afresh. She has now fulfilled her ambition of becoming... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
It is 1906 and the Faro family gather in Orkney after the sudden death of Inspector Faro's son-in-law Erland Yesnaby. The family try to support grieving widow Emily, but after witnessing strange behaviour from the royal... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
The year is 1860 and Inspector Faro has been transported back to one of the darkest moments of his career - the chase of the notorious Macheath across the Scottish border to the Kent countryside. Whilst there, Faro meets an... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
1861. Constable Faro is heading home to Orkney, pursuing a private investigation into the mysterious drowning of an ex-colleague's relative, champion swimmer Dave Claydon. Was this an accident or does Claydon's death have a... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Rose McQuinn is invited to stay with her friend Olive, who has a small cottage on the Balmoral Estate. As Rose travels on the train with her trusty dog Vane and her niece Mabel, she wonders what exciting adventures await... See More
Historical Fiction
July 1660, Falkland Palace, Fife. After rescuing King James the Sixth from a runaway horse, Tam Elidor finds himself in favour. As the King's new object of affection Tam has become the target for jealous courtiers - and... See More
Historical Fiction
Magnificent, proud and with a seabird's grace, the pirate ship Black Duchess joins Spain's 'Most Holy' Armada. No less proud, the ship's captain, Don Felipe Flores y Lennox de Montreuse, godson to King Philip of Spain but... See More
Action & Adventure
Sunday, December 28, 1879 was a cruel and tragic date in Scottish history. Of the 75 train passengers who plunged to their death when the Tay Bridge collapsed only 25 were recovered from the river's murky depths. Among the... See More
Historical Fiction
In 'Great Expectations' Charles Dickens left an unsolved mystery with few clues. Estella is forced into a loveless marriage by the eerie Miss Havisham who had raised her to 'break men's hearts'. She finds herself in a house... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
York, 1907. Newly retired Inspector Faro is delighted at the prospect of staying in the Dower House, situated on a Roman villa once home to Emperor Severus. But he arrives to find his wife Imogen distraught and desperately... See More
Biography & True Accounts
Alanna Knight is a well known author and has written more than 60 books, including the acclaimed Inspector Faro and Rose McQuinn historical crime series. This memoir of her early life before becoming an established and... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Who was the real King James the First? Victorian Detective Inspector Faro investigates the death of an unidentified man on the rocks below Mary Queen of Scots apartments in Edinburgh Castle where renovations revealed the... See More
Historical Fiction
A suicide from the unfinished Tay Bridge throws up a trail of sinister events in one of the most baffling and personal dilemmas of Inspector Faro's career involving the future of his doctor stepson Vince Laurie, the poet... See More
Historical Fiction
A trail of blood leads Inspector Faro through the snow to the body of a maid sent out to post a letter. Had she a secret lover, was she the victim of a crime of passion? Or does another murder two days later indicate a... See More
Historical Fiction
Rose McQuinn, out walking near her home on Arthur's Seat comes across the body of a woman in the ruins of St Anthony's Chapel but when she returns to the scene of the crime, neither body nor the local constable whom she... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Faro is a happy man. His stepson Vince is to marry into Edinburgh's high society. At a sumptuous family party disaster strikes. His future father-in-law is poisoned and Faro's detective skills reveal that the murderer has to... See More
Historical Fiction
In the sinister Wizard's House near Edinburgh Castle, Inspector Faro is shown the body of a young woman. Her identity is a mystery until visiting friends in East Lothian, Faro learns that the guest of honour is to be Queen... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Rose McQuinn has agreed to help her neighbour, Mrs. Lawer, by delivering what she claims to be a family legacy to her only living relative. But Rose's philanthropic journey takes a turn towards the dangerous when she herself... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
In an Edinburgh street, a woman rushes up to Faro . She says someone is trying to kill her. Handing her into a cab, he is hit over the head. Later in the police mortuary he sees her body and that of a man whose likeness... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
1861. When the body of an unknown woman is found in an Edinburgh close, Detective Constable Faro assumes the killing is a random act of violence - until he finds a playing card, the nine of diamonds, underneath her corpse... See More
Biography & True AccountsA well-known and popular author, Alanna recently celebrated her 50th year as a writer with more than 70 published books. This, her second memoir, is the story of her early struggles and, despite a six-year debilitating... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Travelling incognito on the Queen's business involving a royal scandal which could imperil the throne, Faro's fears are justified whem he leaves Edinburgh for the Scottish Borders into an area ruled over by the Elriggs... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Tanya Durris, widowed after a theatre fire in Victorian London, unexpectedly inherits Devenick Castle, her late husband's ancestral home in the ruggedly beautiful Scottish Highlands. It comes with a price - her own life... See More
Historical Fiction
A Murderer in the family? That is the terrifying prospect facing Rose Faro McQuinn, Victorian Lady Detective when archaeologists dig up the preserved corpse of the Maid of Norway, a 13th century princess to find that the... See More
Historical Fiction
Rose McQuinn returns to Edinburgh from the American wild west of 1895. Her baby has died while her husband Danny, working with the Pinkerton's Detective Agency in Arizona goes missing. She has little time to grieve before... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Beth Ryan goes to the Highlands to sell her inherited estate to find all that remains is a Victorian shooting lodge occupied by Calum MacRaven, local doctor and impoverished Laird of Glenrannoch - a whirlwind romance ensues... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'The Gruesome Convent Murders' Prime suspects are a fanatical nun, an aristocratic hermit and a public schoolboy in a chronicle of terror, betrayal, greed and violence. As this sensational case for which the murderer has... See More