A.D. Scott, Atria, $15 paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5493-9
Set in 1956 in an isolated village in the Scottish Highlands, Scott's slow-paced debut centers on the death of eight-year-old Jamie Fraser, who's found in a canal, the apparent victim of a tragic accident. Hoping to turn the local paper, the...
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A.D. Scott. Atria, $15 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-4391-5494-6
In Scott's solid second suspense novel set in 1950s Scotland (after A Small Death in the Great Glen), Joanne Ross, newly promoted from typist to full-time reporter at the Highland Gazette, finds herself writing about two tragic stories connected to...
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A.D. Scott. Atria, $15 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-4516-6577-2
In Scott’s appealing third novel set in the 1950s Scottish Highlands (after 2011’s A Double Death on the Black Isle), the arrest of Donal McLeod, the Highland Gazette’s deputy editor, for fatally stabbing the newspaper’s business manager, Mrs. Smart,
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A.D. Scott. Atria, $16 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-4516-6579-6
What begins as a quiet domestic story deepens into a bloody examination of the effects of change on an insular culture in Scott’s fourth novel set in the 1950s Scottish Highlands (after 2012’s Beneath the Abbey Wall). The discovery of a man’s...
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A.D. Scott. Atria, $16 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-4767-5616-5
Glasgow gangster Gerry Dochery is threatening the life of Jimmy McPhee, a childhood friend of newspaper editor John McAllister, in Scott’s talky fifth novel set in the 1950s Scottish Highlands (after 2013’s North Sea Requiem). McAllister, who has...
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A.D. Scott. Atria, $16 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-4767-5618-9
Scott’s solid sixth novel set in 1950s Scotland (after 2014’s The Low Road) revolves around enigmatic artist and herbalist Alice Ramsay, who lives in deliberate seclusion on an isolated Highlands estate and has been accused and acquitted of...
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