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Computer technicians Fiction Friendship Fiction Glasgow (Scotland) Fiction Intergenerational relations Fiction Organized crime Scotland Glasgow Fiction Private investigators Scotland Glasgow Fiction Scotland Glasgow Single women Fiction Social isolation Fiction Women detectives Scotland Glasgow FictionMackay, Malcolm
Summary: "Martin Sivok is in trouble. Tied to a chair, plastic strips biting his wrists, inside a deserted warehouse...There are only so many ways this scenario can end, most of them badly. For now his best hope is figuring out who put him here--and staying conscious long enough to confront them"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Mackay 2016McDermid, Val
Summary: "Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novels have captivated readers for over three decades. In her new novel 1979, she returns to the past with the story of an investigative journalist whose work leads her into a world of corruption, terror, and murder. It's only January, and the year has already brought blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest. But for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDMackay, Malcolm
Summary: Newly appointed security consultant Nate Colgan finds himself at a crossroads in a power war involving a mysterious rival gang and the mother of his child, while a highly skilled detective inspector investigates local uprisings to prevent a full-scale organizational war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACWilliamson, Victoria
Summary: "A straight-talking but uplifting story about a boy living with ADHD and the sparks that fly when he moves in with his perfectionist step-sister..."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kelpies, an imprint of Floris Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILKelman, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELSeiffert, Rachel.
Summary: Growing up in a Glasgow community haunted by Ireland's Troubles and religious divides, young Stevie finds his precarious family stability and sense of self threatened by his father's marching band's loyalist paramilitary ties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEIStuart, Douglas
Summary: "Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's war on heavy industry has put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STUCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STUMcDermid, Val.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spinsters Ink 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDStuart, Douglas
Summary: "The story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all. Their environment is a hyper-masculine and sectarian one, for gangs of young men and the violence they might dole out dominate the Glaswegian estate where they live. And yet against all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEStuart, Douglas
Summary: Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo is a Protestant while James is Catholic. Against all odds, they become friends and eventually lovers. They dream of finding somewhere they can belong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STUMackay, Malcolm
Summary: "It begins with two deaths: a money-man and a police informant. Deaths that offer a unique opportunity to a man like Calum MacLean. A hit man who has finally had enough of killing. Calum plans an unprecedented escape just as his employers need him the most. Glasgow's biggest criminal organizations are gearing up for a final, fatal confrontation. The panic over Calum's abrupt disappearance may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACMackay, Malcolm
Summary: "A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The clues are there if you know to look for them. He is an expert. A loner. Freelance. Another job is another job, but what if this organization wants more? A meeting at a club. An offer. A target: Lewis Winter, a necessary sacrifice that will be only the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M MACMina, Denise.
Summary: "It's the week before Christmas when a lone robber bursts into a busy Glasgow post office carrying an AK-47. An elderly man suddenly hands his young grandson to a stranger and wordlessly helps the gunman fill bags with cash, then carries them to the door. He opens the door and bows his head; the robber fires off the AK-47, tearing the grandfather in two. DS Alex Morrow arrives on the scene and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reagan Arthur Books/Little, Brown and Co. 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINVerghese, Abraham
Summary: Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, this novel is set in Kerala, on India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning, and in Kerala, water is everywhere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Detective Superintendent Catherine McLeod's investigation into the murder of a small-time heroin dealer is challenged by numerous suspects and an unexpected tie to the disappearance of fledgling private investigator Jasmine Sharpe's mentor uncle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROMina, Denise
Summary: "She thought she was finding her birth mother. Now she's searching for a killer. Dr. Margo Dunlop is at a crossroads. Her adoptive mom just passed away, and Margo misses her so much she can't begin to empty the house-or, it seems, get her brother on the phone. Not to mention she's newly single, secretly pregnant, and worried about her best friend's dangerous relationship. In an effort to cheer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINMay, Peter
Summary: Glasgow, 2015. Jack Mackay dares not look back on a life of failure and mediocrity. The heavy-hearted sixty-seven-year-old is still haunted by what might have been. His recollections of the terrible events that befell him and his friends some fifty years earlier, and how he did not act when it mattered most is a memory he has tried to escape his entire adult life. London, 2015. A man lies dead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction May 2016McIlvanney, William
Summary: In this crime prequel, two crime writers team up for the first ever case of D.I. Laidlaw, Glasgow's original gritty detective who is standing in the midst of gangs, organized crime bosses, crooked politicians, corrupt police and innocent battlers caught in the crossfire. Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong kind of people. When his body is found behind a pub known to be under the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Noir 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCIMina, Denise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MinaSummary: This slick drama follows a low-level newspaper employee whose world is turned upside down when a murder story involves her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FIEHoneyman, Gail.
Summary: "Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HONHoneyman, Gail.
Summary: "Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking 2017
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: BOOK CLUB KIT FIC HONBrookmyre, Christopher
Summary: "Actress turned private investigator Jasmine Sharp has become accustomed to clients looking for long-lost relatives, so when a woman hires her to find her younger sister Tessa Garrion, Jasmine presumes the case will be relatively straightforward. The assignment takes her back into the world of professional theater, where she is warned off more than once for probing too deeply into the past....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROHoneyman, Gail
Summary: A socially awkward, routine-oriented loner teams up with a bumbling IT guy from her office to assist an elderly accident victim, forging a friendship that saves all three from lives of isolation and secret unhappiness.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2017