The Bookseller of Inverness: an absolutely gripping historical thriller from prizewinning author of the Seeker series

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Although an interesting enough story, this failed to capture me. In my humble opinion, Ambrose Parry, Antonia Hodgson, and Kaite Welsh are better writers. Shona went to Aberdeen University to study history and lived in Aberdeenshire for the next quarter of a century.

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A captivating, well paced, well researched story full of intrigue and treachery. There's some great characters, real and fictional. I really liked Donald Mór, his cat Morag, and the Grande Dames. She felt it wasn’t a good time to shift genres, because it was going to be quite a different book, so she asked me if I had anything else,” Shona said. I really enjoyed this novel. My ancestors fought on the Jacobite side at Culloden, and I find the history both tragic and fascinating. If you have any interest in this period of history, then I recommend this novel. It is the first of Ms MacLean’s novels I have read: I’ll be adding her others to my reading list.

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Shona was born in Inverness and grew up in Lochaber where her parents had the Roy Bridge Hotel. Highland roots

Most novels I’ve read don’t dig quite as deeply into the past as this, and the few that do don’t in … Now S G MacLean, who is the niece of author Alistair MacLean, has her head in a snowy 17th Century York with a follow-up to her Damian Seeker series.I enjoyed reading descriptions of the surrounding countryside, where I have family connections, and there is an increasing air of tension as old resentments surface and revenge is enacted. There are two questions to be answered. Who is the murderer, and can Iain find the other traitors first? Certainly, he realises he can no longer leave the past behind and he finally gains real understanding of his charismatic father, Hector.