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A remote Scottish estate. A missing teenager. Archaeologist Laura, ex-detective Callum MacGarvey and Robbie's grandmother investigate, while Robbie's sister, the silent Ruthie, remains haunted by her childhood flashbacks. Though an arrest is made, the dark truth remains buried.

104-year-old Mary Arden is the sole surviving actress of The Simulacrum, the most famous lost movie in film history. Holed up in the Highlands, she has always refused interviews. Now she's agreed to talk to film enthusiast Theda Garrick, in return for the salacious details of Theda's tragic past. But will she trade her darkest secrets for a copy?

When Edinburgh Lawyer, Hector Lawless, is approached by his boss with a case that reaches from one of Edinburgh's private schools to 10 Downing Street, he relishes the chance to bring evil to justice. Hector has to use every skill he has cultivated over a lifetime of being an outsider to survive.

Lennox Ritchie, 15 years old, wakes up on the day before his birthday to discover his addict mother has up and left. In order to survive he falls in with a gang on the Duhbrae estate and soon finds himself in more trouble than he ever imagined. Will he escape and find the life he's always wished for? Or is this the end of the road?

In 1976, a woman arrives in Little Denny Road and moves into her new council flat. Her two daughters are always with her, except at night when they watch her drive off in a stranger's car. Sadie, the youngest daughter, thinks nothing of this until she's asked a question at school. The answer will unleash consequences that echo through the decades.

Edinburgh basks in an unnaturally warm winter until snow starts falling. A student disappears, along with his climate research, the national government close down all communications and Professor Finlay Hamilton realises the link between his own research into dark matter and the freak weather. Suddenly he is in the midst of a catastrophic event.

Blackbird Singing is a musing, a meandering through real life. It is a book about living, about understanding, about learning, about growing, about love and also grief, and because it is Graham, it is about the world of mental illness and compulsory treatment and trying to live a normal life when everyone says there is no such thing as normal.

Trishna Singh OBE was born in Glasgow, a first generation Scottish Bhatra Sikh. She left school, age 13, with no qualifications. She had an arranged marriage, moving to Edinburgh, age 19 to live with her husband. She is now director of Sikh Sanjog, a group which provides support for women in the Sikh community in Edinburgh. This is her story.

When a distillery owner's body is discovered, forensics confirm that he died of natural causes. DI Corstophine's concerns are raised when the dead's man eccentric sister receives a message, apparently from beyond the grave. The police are dismissive until it appears the devil himself is intent on attacking other family members.

Set in a brutal, chaotic Scotland of the near future, it's business at any cost for the people who live there. Archie Henderson has rewilded his vast Highland estate, filling the mountains and woods with wolves and bears. But when a young man is killer by a bear on the reserve, DI Rhona Ballantyne investigates. The death is not all it seems.

Even the Birds Grow Silent is a collection of narrative fragments told by Death. Death feels she gets a bad press nowadays, and is keen to tell her side of the story. Over afternoon tea in the Balmoral hotel in Edinburgh, the editor of A Class Act magazine gets to know the other side of Death, as she's never been seen before.

Sometimes it's terrifying, loving someone this much... For Fen Munro and her fiance James, it is a dream come true: an escape from London to a beautiful house in stunning Perthshire. But at night, Fen is tormented by horrifying dreams. Someone wants Fen's happiness, and nothing is going to stop them - not even death...

It's Hannah Greenshields's first day at Memory Lane, a memory clinic in the centre of Edinburgh. John Valentine, a Memory Lane client, is reliving his wedding day over and over again, hoping to change one key event he can't forget. When Hannah and John's paths meet, they must work together to get John back to the real world before it's too late.

Four teenagers devise a plan to show people they should never trust what they read on the internet. They launch a news site detailing amazing, utterly believable but totally untrue stories. They intend to come clean, but success goes to their heads and soon they are enmeshed in a world of spies and aliens. How will they get out of this unscathed?

The Sins of Allie Lawrence is a tale of temptation, inspired by the legend of Black Donald, and set against the vibrant world of the theatre.After a blazing row with her mother, sixteen-year-old Allie Lawrence impulsively runs away from the family home in Killiecrankie, with no plan other than to go to Edinburgh to 'be an actor.

Happiness Is Wasted On Me is a genre-blending tale that spans a decade in the life of Walter Wedgeworth. It's a coming of age tale, a family drama, a mystery, and a biting dark comedy. Ultimately, it's the story of how even the strangest people can find their way in the world.

A gamekeeper is found hanging lifeless from a tree near a sleepy Highland town. A police investigation finds he has been cleverly snared. As the body count rises, the hunt is on to find the murderer. But the town doesn't give up its secrets easily and who makes the intricate clockwork mechanisms carved from bone and wood found at each crime?

This is the story of Hani, a refugee who escapes from war-torn Syria with his sister, Reena, and his unlikely friendship with a girl who helps him flee across Scotland, into uninhabited Flow Country, to the northern most tip of Britain, looking for his abducted sister.

The year is 1839, and Mary Shelley - the author of Frankenstein - is alone. Sorting through her husband's scattered papers she is reminded of their past: the half-ruined villas in Italy, the stormy relationship with Shelley and her stepsister Claire, the loss of her children, and finally, her husband's drowning on the Gulf of Spezia.

It's 1915 and Britain is at war as Kate Hunter's sequel to The Caseroom opens on the next stage in the lives of Iza Orr, skilled compositor, and the workers in Edinburgh's print industry. We step alongside Iza as she copes with unexpected complexities of patriotism, women's suffrage, worker victimisation and a historic wartime lockout.