JD Kirk’s DCI Jack Logan series is one that seems to have come out of nowhere and taken the UK crime novel scene by storm. The first entry came out back in 2019, and there are now 14 books in total. The series follows the activities of DCI Jack Logan, a homicide detective in Scotland. He’s your classic tortured middle-aged guy with a screwed up family life and a history of alcoholism – but as you might expect, he has…
Often when a book series gets adapted for TV and becomes popular, it spawns a host of imitations – and renews interest in similar titles that have been around for ages. That’s exactly what has happened with the popular Outlander series. Scottish time travel books are hot, and while Outlander is certainly the most popular, it’s neither the first nor the only book to tell a story of romance and adventure across time. If you’ve exhausted all that the Outlander…
If you love Scotland and you love mystery novels, but you DON’T always love reading the gruesome details of how a victim was killed, this is the perfect reading list for you. In this post, we’re taking a look at Scottish cozy mysteries. These books are set anywhere from the Scottish borders all the way up to the Highlands and islands, but they all have one thing in common – they’re cozy mysteries. For those not familiar with the genre,…