The Bookseller of Inverness

By S.G. MacLean,

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A GRIPPING HISTORICAL THRILLER SET IN INVERNESS IN THE WAKE OF THE 1746 BATTLE OF CULLODEN.

'This slice of historical fiction takes you on a wild ride' THE TIMES

After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drummossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally slashed, he survived only by pretending…

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Loved the main characters in the historical context immersed into the setting. Scotland Forever! Poor Bonnie Prince Charley.

It’s not often we Scots get to read about our history from a Scottish persepctive, and this crime novel took us right into the aftermath of Culloden, where the Government troops slaughtered the Jacobites under Bonny Prince Charlie. Six years later, survivor Iain MacGillivray finds a dead man in his bookshop, and his desire for peace is tested as a new Jacobite plot begins.

Maclean recreates the tense atmosphere in this garrison town, where memories of the atrocities after the battle are still vividly alive, where the Grandes Dames still meet to toast the king over the water, and the…

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