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Author
Series
Publisher
Spinsters Ink
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A British crime novel involving several lesbian ex-lovers. Journalist Lindsay Gordon investigates the strangulation death of her ex-lover Alison, for which Alison's ex-lover Jackie is serving a life sentence. Jackie is innocent, says her ex-lover Claire, who hired Lindsay.
62) To kill a witch
Author
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
English
Description
When the body of a young divorcee from a wealthy Glasgow suburb is found floating in the River Clyde, Chief Inspector Thane's investigation uncovers the victim's membership in a neighborhood coven of witches - a group of very frightened and defensive women not about to divulge any of the secrets of their cult.
63) A fond kiss
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A second generation Pakistani in Glasgow falls for the White, Irish Catholic music teacher at his sister's school. They try to make the relationship work despite a tentative arranged marriage and parental and societal pressures.
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Gil Cunningham and an old acquaintance, Glasgow merchant Augie Morison, report the gruesome find of a severed head instead of an expected delivery of books. At the inquest, Morison is accused of murder and imprisoned. He appeals to Gil, who sets out to identify the dead man and establish the provenance of the treasure that lay beside him. The trail leads from the court of James IV at Stirling via a cooper's yard in Linlithgow, to another murder on...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
In later years, Ray Sussock would look upon the case as being perhaps the most satisfying of his career. He began with the case and he was there at the conclusion twenty-five years later. It would, though, be many months, if not years, before the sense of satisfaction, the sense of neatly rounding off, would settle in. At the time he found it harrowing, especially when the realization came. When the realization came he had woken up. Screaming. So...
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In Killer, DCI Jim Taggart and graduate constable Peter Livingstone team up to nab a serial killer when one young blonde woman after another turns up dead. In Dead ringer, Taggart's investigation leads to a possible miscarriage of justice when the skeletal remains of a dismembered female are found. In Murder in season, an opera singer returns to Glasgow to perform, but she becomes the main suspect when her husband's new girlfriend is found murdered....
71) Two way cut
Author
Series
P Division ; 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
"This deftly written procedural realistically captures the life of modern Glasgow and the men who keep law and order there. A young cop on the beat finds a body laid out, with the head hacked off and neatly left on the chest of the torso. No clues to the victim's identity are available, but several peculiar aspects of the crime cause the detectives of Glasgow's P Division to conclude that some sort of ritual murder has occurred. For one thing, the...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
From writer/director Stuart Murdoch comes the most delightfully different musical of the year. Eve is a catastrophe - low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass and fastidious James. Together they decide there's only one thing to do: form a pop group.
73) The fourth crow
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Constable
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"In the ninth Gil Cunningham mystery set in medieval Glasgow, the crime-solving notary investigates the slaying of a woman found dead outside a cathedral. Tied to St. Mungo's Cross by the cathedral, to be cured of her madness overnight by the saint, a young woman is found in the morning beaten and strangled, still tied to the cross. Who would flout the saint's protection like this? And who is stealing cathedral property? The crows are gathering about...
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