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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
Small Town & Rural
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
Literature & Fiction
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
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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
Literature & Fiction
It's 1899 and strange things are happening in Edinburgh. The arrival of a circus seems to set in train a terrible series of events: the death of a clerk during a bank robbery and the suicides of two girls within mere hours... See More
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
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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
Historical Fiction
The year is 1864 and Detective Inspector Faro's idyllic life has been shattered by the escape of convicted murderer John McLaw. With countless dead end sightings of the killer and further criminal activity Faro realises that... See More
Crime Fiction
In August 1811, George, Prince of Wales and the Prince Regent is horrified to find his mistress Sarah, Marchioness of Creeve dead in his bed, strangled by the string of pearls around her neck. The Prince realises what a... 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
Action & Adventure
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
Historical Fiction
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
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
Biographies & Memoirs
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
Suspense
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
Crime 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
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
Literature & 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
Historical Fiction
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
Crime Fiction
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
Literature & Fiction
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
Literature & 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
Historical Fiction
Victorian D I Faro's visit to a remote Orkney island erupts in horrors. Two bodies, the village simpleton possibly murdered and the week-old corpse of the laird's wife removed from her coffin are laid out side-by-side on the... 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
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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
'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
Faro is looking forward to a restful visit at Imogen Crowe's home in Ireland, only to discover, on arrival, the brutal murder of a young couple and a community terrorised by a trio of young thugs, the Cara brothers, lairds... See More
Literature & Fiction
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
Literature & 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
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