The Bookseller of Inverness: a gripping historical thriller from the double prizewinning author

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As it was I was aware who was the murderer very early on and who the penultimate target would be, so I'd say read this one as a historical rather than as a murder mystery. The story woven around the historic facts is interesting, entertaining and thoroughly enjoyable and leaves me hoping for more. An uneasy peace reigns in the Highlands now, enforced by the red-coated soldiers of the ruling Hanoverian King. Her first book, 'The Redemption of Alexander Seaton' was short-listed for both the Saltire first book award and the CWA Historical Dagger; she has won the Historical Dagger twice - in 2015 for 'The Seeker' and in 2019 for 'Destroying Angel'.

The first and third books in the series, The Seeker and Destroying Angel , have won the CWA Historical Dagger and the second and fourth, The Black Friar and The House of Lamentations were longlisted for the same award. Her standalone Jacobite thriller, 'The Bookseller of Inverness' was voted Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2023.Out’ for Charles Edward Stuart, Prince or Young Pretender depending which side is naming him, Iain was badly wounded in the battle that brought the 1745 Jacobite rebellion to its bloody end, but he was luckier than the many hundreds of men who perished during the battle or in the reprisals that followed it.

I also loved Ishbel MacLeod, mother of young Tormod, who is frightened of something, and Julia Rose, who has an overbearing mother. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This incident starts a series of events connected to Iain’s turbulent past and the political situation in contemporary Scotland. I asked for historical (crime) fiction recommendations on Twitter on Friday and this title popped up quite a bit. I have an entirely irrational aversion to novels with titles that follow ‘The [Profession] of [Place]’ formula after there were so many of them and the one I read wasn’t very good!Hector is the most enjoyable character – a kind of adventurer, good-looking and charming and with an eye for the ladies, who have an eye for him too!