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Some of many books set in Scotland:
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (1st book in series - AKA Cross Stitch)
The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
Beyond the Highland Mist by Karen Marie Moning (1st book in series)
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith (1st book in series)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith (1st book in series)
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin (1st book in series)
Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea by Nancy Atherton
Among the Missing: A Novel by Morag Joss
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
The 39 Steps by John Buchan
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles by Margaret George
Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland by Susan Fraser King
Royal Road to Fotheringhay (Stuart Saga, #1) by Jean Plaidy
Death of a Gossip by M.C. Beaton (1st book in series)
On a Highland Shore by Kathleen Givens
The Crow Road by Iain M. Banks
The Bride by Julie Garwood (1st book in series)
Lady Macbeth by Susan Fraser King
The Wasp Factory by Iain M. Banks
Saving Grace by Julie Garwood
How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman
The Secret by Julie Garwood (st book in series)
Garnethill by Denise Mina (1st book in series)
The Observations by Jane Harris
The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley (1st book in series)
Lanark by Alasdair Gray
Devil of the Highlands by Lynsay Sands (1st book in series)
If You Dare by Kresley Cole (1st book in series)
Blue Bells of Scotland by Laura Vosika (1st book in trilogy)
Lady Of The Glen A Novel of 17th-Century Scotland by Jennifer Roberson
Corrag by Susan Fletcher
The Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley
Buddha Da by Anne Donovan
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale by Robert Louis Stevenson
Highlander Untamed by Monica McCarty (1st book in trilogy)
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
Laird of the Mist by Paula Quinn (1st book in the MagGregor series)
Rob Roy by Walter Scott
Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband by Melissa Mayhue
The Complaints by Ian Rankin (1st book in series)
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
September by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
Son of the Morning by Linda Howard
A Dance through Time by Lynn Kurland (1st book in series)
The Angel of Blythe Hall: A Historical Novel by Darci Hannah
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
The Crown in the Heather by N. Gemini Sasson (1st book in series)
The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel by Diana Gabaldon
The Chief by Monica McCarty (1st book in series)
How to Abduct a Highland Lord by Karen Hawkins (1st in series)
Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser
Highland Velvet by Jude Deveraux
Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley by Alison Weir
A Gentle Feuding by Johanna Lindsey
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
Men in Kilts by Katie MacAlister
How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
Halting State by Charles Stross (1st book in series)
Complicity by Iain M. Banks
The Dark Mirror by Juliet Marillier (1st book in series)
The Devil Wears Plaid by Teresa Medeiros
Queen's Own Fool: A Novel of Mary Queen of Scots by Jane Yolen
Still Midnight by Denise Mina (1st book in series)
Moon Awakening by Lucy Monroe (1st book in series)
Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre (1st book in series)
Scottish Brides by Christina Dodd
Legend in Green Velvet by Elizabeth Peters
King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett
Doors Open by Ian Rankin
Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson
The Betrayal of Maggie Blair by Elizabeth Laird
Bride and the Beast by Teresa Medeiros
Royal Flush by Rhys Bowen
The Eternal Highlander by Hannah Howell (1st book in series)
Highlander In Her Bed by Allie Mackay
It Happened One Bite by Lydia Dare (1st book in series)
The Guardian by Margaret Mallory (1st book in series)
Field of Blood by Denise Mina (1st book in series)
A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots by Carolly Erickson
Highlander Untamed by Monica McCarty (1st book in series)
The Trick Is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway
The Island Harp by Jeanne Williams
Sacrifice by S.J. Bolton
Ravished by a Highlander by Paula Quinn (1st book in series)
The Crown in the Heather by N. Gemini Sasson (1st book in trilogy)
Devil in a Kilt by Sue-Ellen Welfonder (1st book in series)
The Pride of Lions by Marsha Canham (1st book in series)
A Small Death in the Great Glen by A.D. Scott (1st book in series)
The Exile of Sara Stevenson by Darci Hannah
One Night in Scotland by Karen Hawkins (1st book in series)
Royal Road to Fotheringhay (Stuart Saga, #1) by Jean Plaidy (1st book in series)
More books set in Scotland:
Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride (1st book in series)
The Flight of Gemma Hardy: A Novel by Margot Livesey
Green Paddocks by Andrew Greig
Calum's Road by Roger Hutchinson
Glencoe by John Prebble
Stone Garden by Alan Spence
The Legend of Lady MacLaoch by Becky Banks
Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea by Nancy Atherton
Among the Missing: A Novel by Morag Joss
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
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Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin02)
Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin03)
Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin04)
Strip Jack by Ian Rankin05)
The Black Book by Ian Rankin06)
Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin07)
Let It Bleed by Ian Rankin08)
Black and Blue by Ian Rankin09)
The Hanging Garden by Ian Rankin10)
Dead Souls by Ian Rankin11)
Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin12)
The Falls by Ian Rankin13)
Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin14)
A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin15)
Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin16)
The Naming Of The Dead by Ian Rankin17)
Exit Music by Ian RankinAll these books are crime stories set in Edingburgh, Scotland.
Books Set in Aberdeenshire:
69 Things to Do With a Dead Princess by Stewart Home
Ballad & the Plough by David Kerr Cameron
The Bruce by John Barbour
Childhood at Court 1819-1914 by John Van der Kiste
Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride (1st book in Logan McRae series) 
Coven by Steven William Rimmer
David Elginbrod by George MacDonald
The Firebird by Susanna Kearsley
A Gentle Feuding by Johanna Lindsey
Her Little Majesty: The Life of Queen Victoria by Carolly Erickson
The Highlander's Touch by Karen Marie Moning
John Brown: Queen Victoria's Highland Servant by Raymond Lamont-Brown
The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale by Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing But My Sword by Sam Coull
One Night in Scotland by Karen Hawkins (1st book in Hurst Amulet series)
The George MacDonald Treasury by George MacDonald
Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood (Illustrated Edition) by George MacDonald
A Scots Quair: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, Grey Granite by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The Scottish Bride by Catherine Coulter
The Scottish Rose by Jill Jones
Sleepwalking by Nicola Morgan
book:Stonemouth|11324334] by Iain Banks
The Studio Game by Peter Burnett
Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma
The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
Books Set in Angus
Angelic by Kelley Armstrong
The Beautiful Stranger by Julia London
Birthdays for the Dead by Stuart MacBride
Death at Glamis Castle by Robin Paige
Elizabeth, the Queen Mother by Hugo Vickers
Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson
Four Days in July: Tom Watson, the 2009 Open Championship, and a Tournament for the Ages by Jim Huber
A Gentle Feuding by Johanna Lindsey
The Good Son by Russel D. McLean
The Harlot by Saskia Walker (1st book of Taskill Witches series)
The Healing of Luther Grove by Barry Gornell
A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott
Neverland: J. M. Barrie, The Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side of Peter Pan 
Tombstoning by Doug Johnstone
Wedlock by Wendy Moore
Books set in Argyllshire
After a Dead Dog: Dangerous Love, Dark Secrets, Sudden Death by Colin Murray
Against a Dark Sky by Katherine Pathak (1st book in DCI Dani Bevan series)
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away by Christopher Brookmyre
Black Fox of Lorne by Marguerite de Angeli
Border Bride by Arnette Lamb
Bridal Path by Nigel Tranter
By Eastern Windows by Gretta Curran Browne
The Chief by Monica McCarty (1st book in Highland Guard series)
Corrag by Susan Fletcher (aka Witch Light; The Highland Witch)
The Crow Road by Iain Banks
Gillespie by J. MacDougall Hay
Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty
Highlander In Her Bed by Allie Mackay
The Island Wife by Jessica Stirling
Lady Of The Glen: A Novel of 17Th-Century Scotland and the Massacre of Glencoe
Laird of the Mist by Paula Quinn (1st book of MacGregors series)
Last Ferry to Bute by Myra Duffy
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
Sealed with a Kiss by Rachael Lucas
Somerled: Hammer of the Norse by Kathleen M. Macphee
The Sword Maiden by Susan King
When Eight Bells Toll by Alistair MacLean
The Wind from the Hills by Jessica Stirling
Hi Diane. I'm from Angus, and whilst Forfar is in Angus (literally 5 mins drive from my parents' house) I've never heard the county ever been called Forfarshire before! Although we sometimes get grouped under Tayside. :)
Donna wrote: "Hi Diane. I'm from Angus, and whilst Forfar is in Angus (literally 5 mins drive from my parents' house) I've never heard the county ever been called Forfarshire before! Although we sometimes get g..."I got that from the list of UK counties that Ian supplied. Maybe it is one of those old names that isn't used anymore.
Books set in Ayrshire
Bagpipes and Bullshot by Janice Horton
Black Cairn Point by Claire McFall
Blood by Janice Galloway
Bone Quill by Carole E. Barrowman
Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
Castle Dangerous by Walter Scott
A Daughter of Heth: A Novel by William Black
Duncan's War by Douglas Bond (1st book of Crown and Covenant series)
Electric Brae by Andrew Greig
The House With the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
Huntingtower by John Buchan
Lady of Monkton by Elizabeth Byrd
The Last Days of Disco by David F. Ross
Murder on the Isle of Cumbrae by Norman Deeley
Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan
This Is Not About Me by Janice Galloway
The Trick Is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway
Turn of the Tide by Margaret Skea
Where You Find It by Janice Galloway
The Wind That Shakes the Barley by James Barke
Books set in Banffshire
Confessions of a Banffshire Loon by David M. Addison
Dandy Gilver and The Reek of Red Herrings by Catriona McPherson
Dreamer by May McGoldrick (1st book in Highland Treasure series)
In the Cold Dark Ground by Stuart MacBride (Logan McRae #10)
The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona MacLean (1st in series)
A Rose In The Storm by Brenda Joyce (2nd book in Scottish Medieval series)
A Sparkle Of Salt by Evelyn Hood
The Witching Stone by Georgia Paton
A Separate Little War: The Banff Coastal Command Strike Wing Versus the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe in Norway September 1944 to May 1945 by Andrew D. Bird
Books set in Berwickshire
Annals of the Five Senses and Other Stories, Sketches and Plays 
Black Friday: The Story of the Eyemouth Disaster by Peter Aitchison
Breaker by Annemarie Allan
A Breath of Border Air by Lavinia Derwent
Children of the Sea: The Story of the Eyemouth Disaster by Peter Aitchison
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle by Hugh MacDiarmid
Lone Rangers: An English Club's Century in Scottish Football by Tom Maxwell
Prisoner of the Flames by Dawn Mactavish
Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley
The Storm by Elisabeth McNeill
An Unlikely Countess: Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway 
Wojtek the Bear: Polish War Hero by Aileen Orr
Kettle of Fish by Nigel Tranter
Books set in Buteshire
The Betrayal of Maggie Blair by Elizabeth Laird
Burning Down George Orwell's House by Andrew Ervin
The Call of the Highlands by Barbara Cartland
Hatter's Castle by A.J. Cronin
Hollow Earth by Carole E. Barrowman
The House at Ettrick Bay by Myra Duffy
Last Ferry to Bute by Myra Duffy
Para Handy by Neil Munro
Books set in Cromartyshire
The Anatomist's Wife by Anna Lee Huber
Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea by Nancy Atherton
A Double Death on the Black Isle: A Novel by A.D. Scott
The Lairds of Cromarty by Jean-Pierre Ohl
The Remarkable World of Frances Barkley: 1769-1845 by Cathy Converse
The Warrior Laird by Margo Maguire
Books set in Caithness
Bonnie of Evidence by Maddy Hunter
Highland Fling Murders by Jessica Fletcher
The Laird Who Loved Me by Karen Hawkins
My Banished Highlander by Nancy Lee Badger
Morning Tide by Neil M. Gunn
Who's Afraid of Beowulf by Tom Holt
Books set in Clackmannanshire
Highland Outlaw by Monica McCarty
Bonanzas and Jacobites: The Story of the Silver Glen by Stephen Moreton
Books set in Dumfriesshire
Bad Boys in Kilts by Donna Kauffman (1st book in Chisholm Brothers series)
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
Castle Gay by John Buchan
Coming Home for Christmas: A Christmas in Paradise\O Christmas Tree\No Crib for a Bed
My Heart's in the Lowlands: Ten Days in Bonny Scotland by Liz Curtis Higgs
Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray
Other People's Rules by Julia Hamilton
Scottish Brides by Christina Dodd
Thorn in My Heart by Liz Curtis Higgs (1st book in Lowlands of Scotland series)
A Year and a Day by Virginia Henley
Books set in Dunbartonshire
The Eagle Of The Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff (1st book in series)
The Green Ray by Jules Verne
The Holy City by Meg Henderson
The River Flows On by Maggie Craig
Robert The Bruce's Rivals: The Comyns, 1212 1314 by Alan Young
Shannon's Way by A.J. Cronin
Books set in East Lothian / Haddingtonshire:
1979: A Big Year in a Small Town by Rhona Cameron
Breaker by Annemarie Allan
The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott
Change of Life by Anne Stormont
Father Malachy's Miracle by Bruce Marshall
The First Blast of the Trumpet by Marie Macpherson (1st book in the Knox trilogy)
The Sea Detective by Mark Douglas-Home
Skinner's Round by Quintin Jardine
Thistle Soup: A Ladleful of Scottish Life by Peter Kerr
Ushig by Annemarie Allan
When the Snow Refused to Fall by Irene M. Redpath
Books set in Fife
An American Caddie in St. Andrews
Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis by David Lyndsay
Banquet For the Damned by Adam Nevill
The Beginning and the End of the World 
Bury Her Deep by Catriona McPherson
Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder by Catriona McPherson
Dark Spell by Gill Arbuthnott
A Darker Domain by Val McDermid
The Day the World Went Loki by Robert J. Harris
Dead Men's Bones by James Oswald
A Death in the Neuk by Malcolm Adamson
Death Is Not the End: A Novella by Ian Rankin
The Distant Echo by Val McDermid
Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy
Eye For An Eye by Frank Muir
Fringe of Gold: The Fife Anthology by Duncan Glen
Ghosting: A Double Life by Jennie Erdal
How to Make a Golem and Terrify People by Alette J. Willis
Hue and Cry by Shirley Mckay (1st Hugh Cullan Mystery)
I Put a Spell on You by John Burnside
The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin
A Kettle of Fish by Ali Bacon
Lady Rose and Mrs. Memmary by Ruby Ferguson
A Lie about My Father by John Burnside
The Mushroom Club by Andrew Murray Scott
Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland by Susan Fraser King
Sea of Suspicion by Toni Anderson
Stuart Adamson: In a Big Country by Allan Glen
The Student Prince by FayJay
Tell Me No Secrets by Julie Corbin
Tommy's Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son by Kevin Cook
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Winterbringers by Gill Arbuthnott
Books set in Inverness-shire
Alinda of the Loch by Oonagh Jane Pope
Among the Missing by Morag Joss
At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen
Atlantic Fury by Hammond Innes
The Banners of Alba by Jen Black
Bird of Passage by Catherine Czerkawska
The Boggart and the Monster by Susan Cooper
Body of Water by Stuart Wakefield
Bondagers & The Straw Chair by Sue Glover
Calum's Road by Roger Hutchinson
The Chief by Monica McCarty (1st book of Highland Guard series)
Culloden by John Prebble
Culloden Spirit by Anita Davison
Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis by Ali Smith
Glencoe by John Prebble
A Griffon's Nest by Betty Levin
The Guardian by Margaret Mallory (1st book of Return of the Highlanders series)
Highlander Untamed by Monica McCarty (1st book of MacLeod's of Skye Trilogy)
The Island Harp by Jeanne Williams
The January Flower by Orla Broderick
The Key-Stone of the Bridge by Craig Meggy
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Lady of Skye by Patricia Cabot
The Legend of Lady Maclaoch by Becky Banks
Letters from Skye: A Novel by Jessica Brockmole
Life and Death of St Kilda: The Moving Story of a Vanished Island Community by Tom Steel
Love, Revenge and Buttered Scones by Bobbie Darbyshire
The Monarch of the Glen by Compton Mackenzie
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (1st book in series)
The Pride of Lions by Marsha Canham (1st book of Highlands series)
A Proper Woman by Lillian Beckwith
Ravished by a Highlander by Paula Quinn (1st book of Children of the Mist series)
A Scottish Love by Karen Ranney
Skye by Ophelia Finsen
The Stonor Eagles by William Horwood
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
Watchers: The Coming of the King by William Meikle (1st book in series)
Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie
Written in Bone by Simon Beckett
Books set in Kincardineshire
Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson
Books set in Kinross-shire
As High as the Heavens by Kathleen Morgan
An Iron Rose by Peter Temple
Once Upon a Tower by Eloisa James
Books set in Kircudbrightshire
The 39 Steps by John Buchan
The Border Hostage by Virginia Henley
Castle Dangerous by Walter Scott
The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff
My Heart's in the Lowlands: Ten Days in Bonny Scotland by Liz Curtis Higgs
Ostrich Boys by Keith Gray
Tempted by Virginia Henley
Books set in Lanarkshire
All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye by Christopher Brookmyre
And When I Die by Russel D. McLean
Being Emily by Anne Donovan
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away by Christopher Brookmyre
The Book Of Man by Barry Graham
Buddha Da by Anne Donovan
The Busconductor Hines by James Kelman
The Credit Draper by J. David Simons
The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
Death Of A Ladies' Man by Alan Bissett
Deception by Denise Mina
Devil's Mistress by Heather Graham
A Disaffection by James Kelman
Divided City by Theresa Breslin
The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina
Field of Blood by Denise Mina
Finn McCool Rises by Mark MacNicol
Garnethill by Denise Mina
Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
Kieron Smith, Boy by James Kelman
Laidlaw by William McIlvanney
Lanark: A Life in 4 Books by Alasdair Gray
Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight
The Liberation of Celia Kahn by J. David Simons
Looking for the Possible Dance by A.L. Kennedy
My Shit Life So Far by Frankie Boyle
No Mean City by Alexander McArthur
Of Darkness and Light by Barry Graham
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
Reality, Reality by Jackie Kay
Resolution by Denise Mina
Roses of Winter by Murdo Morrison
The Sacred Art of Stealing by Christopher Brookmyre
Something Leather by Alasdair Gray
The Songs of Manolo Escobar by Carlos Alba
Still Midnight by Denise Mina
Stone Garden by Alan Spence
Sugarcoated by Catherine Forde
Trumpet by Jackie Kay
The Unburied Dead by Douglas Lindsay (1st book in Thomas Hutton series)
Young Adam by Alexander Trocchi
Books set in Midlothian
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith (1st book in series)
After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
The Amber Fury by Natalie Haynes
The Angel of Blythe Hall: A Historical Novel by Darci Hannah
And the Land Lay Still by James Robertson
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh
Beggar's Banquet by Ian Rankin
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Marty Wingate (3rd Potting Shed Mystery)
Bleeding Hearts by Ian Rankin
Blood Hunt by Ian Rankin
Blood Past by Samantha Young
Blood in the Water by Gillian Galbraith
Blue Bedroom and Other Stories by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Bridge by Iain Banks
Cameo by Fritha Waters
The Complaints by Ian Rankin
Complicity by Iain Banks
Catriona by Jeanette Baker
A Cool Head by Ian Rankin
The Complete Short Stories by Ian Rankin
Country Of The Blind by Christopher Brookmyre
Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains by Catriona McPherson
Dark Entries by Ian Rankin
Doors Open by Ian Rankin
The Dead Travel Fast by Deanna Raybourn
The Explosionist by Jenny Davidson
The Earl's Secret by Terri Brisbin
The Fanatic by James Robertson
Fatal Last Words by Quintin Jardine
Filth by Irvine Welsh
The Flood by Ian Rankin
A Good Hanging: Short Stories by Ian Rankin
Glue by Irvine Welsh
Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Atkinson
The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett (1st book of The Lymond Chronicles)
Halting State by Charles Stross
The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Walter Scott
The Hostage Bride by Jane Feather
It Happened One Bite by Lydia Dare (1st book of The Regency Vampyre Trilogy)
The Italian Secretary by Caleb Carr
The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin
The Judge by Rebecca West
Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin (1st book of Inspector Rebus series)
The Lass Wore Black by Karen Ranney
The Loner by Quintin Jardine
Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh
The Missing Shade of Blue by Jennie Erdal
Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley by Alison Weir
The Night Calls by David Pirie
On Dublin Street by Samantha Young (1st book in series)
One Day by David Nicholls
The Observations by Jane Harris
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
The Patient's Eyes: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes by David Pirie
Porno by Irvine Welsh
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
Regeneration by Pat Barker (1st book in series)
The Romanian by Ophelia Finsen
A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright
The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith (1st book in series)
Skinner's Rules by Quintin Jardine
The Sopranos by Alan Warner
The Shoemaker's Son by Gayle Ramage
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Taming the Heiress by Susan King (1st book of the Victorian Scotland Trilogy)
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
Vacation with a Vampire...and Other Immortals by Maggie Shayne
Vampire Close by Susanne Saville
Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
Wojtek the Bear: Polish War Hero by Aileen Orr
Books set in Morayshire
Claimed by the Laird by Nicola Cornick (Scottish Brides #3)
Freedom's Sword by J.R. Tomlin
Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin
Men in Kilts by Katie MacAlister
The Road To Craigellachie by Hans Offringa
The Tin Kin by Eleanor Thom
Wild Harbour by Ian MacPherson
The White Bird Passes by Jessie Kesson
Books set in Nairnshire
A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle by Liza Campbell (AKA Title Deeds)
Lady Macbeth by Susan Fraser King
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Quest for a Kelpie by Frances Mary Hendry
Books set in Orkney
Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown
Drawing a Blank: Or How I Tried to Solve a Mystery, End a Feud, and Land the Girl of My Dreams
The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey
The Firebrand by Debra A. Kemp (1st book in House of Pendragon series)
The Grand Scuttle: The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919 by Dan van der Vat
In Another Light by Andrew Greig
King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett
Letters from Hamnavoe by George Mackay Brown
Magnus by George Mackay Brown
Orkney by Amy Sackville
The Orkney Scroll: An Archaeological Mystery (Archaeological Mystery #10)
Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney by Anonymous
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
The Seal King Murders by Alanna Knight
Spy Castle by Nick Carter (Killmaster #10)
The Stronghold by Mollie Hunter
Venus as a Boy by Luke Sutherland
Vinland by George Mackay Brown
Wolfskin by Juliet Marillier (1st book of The Light Isles series)
Books set in Peeblesshire
Legacy by Jeanette Baker
Moon Rabbit by Oliver Eade
St. Ronan's Well by Walter Scott
Books set in Perthshire
The Abbot by Walter Scott
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
Blood Faerie by India Drummond (1st book in Caledonia Fae series)
Dandy Gilver and a Deadly Measure of Brimstone by Catriona McPherson 
Dunsinane by David Greig
The Fair Maid of Perth by Walter Scott
Flower of Scotland by Emma Blair
For Better, For Worse by Nora Kay
'In Our Day...': Reminiscences and Songs from Rural Perthshire by Margaret Bennett
Indian Summer by Maureen Reynolds
Legend in Green Velvet by Elizabeth Peters
The King's Corrodian by Pat McIntosh
Lost Perthshire by Lindsay
The Mount Stewart Murder: A Re-Examination of the UK's Oldest Unsolved Murder Case 
Perthshire Murders by Geoff Holder
A Private Empire by Stephen Foster
Queen Amang the Heather: The Life of Belle Stewart by Sheila Stewart
Right Royal Friend by Nigel Tranter
Royal Flush by Rhys Bowen
Something Out There by Jim Crumley
The Stone Maiden by Susan King (1st book in The Maiden Trilogy)
The Winter Ground by Catriona McPherson
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher
Books set in Renfrewshire
Another Day by Evelyn Hood
Birds In The Spring by Evelyn Hood
Braveheart by Randall Wallace
Galloway Street by John Boyle
Greenfields by Richard Price
Just Daft: The Chic Murray Story by Robbie Grigor
Pandaemonium by Christopher Brookmyre
The Slab Boys by John Byrne
A Touch of Treason by Ian Hamilton
William Wallace: Brave Heart by James A. MacKay
Books set in Ross-shire
The Blackhouse by Peter May
Beware a Scot's Revenge by Sabrina Jeffries (School for Heiresses #3)
The Dark Mirror by Juliet Marillier (1st book of The Bridei Chronicles)
His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
Isolation Shepherd by Iain R. Thomson
Last of the Line by John Mackay
On a Highland Shore by Kathleen Givens (1st book of the Highland series)
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
Books set in Roxburghshire
Black and Blue by Ian Rankin (Inspector Rebus #8)
The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott
The Devil of Jedburgh by Claire Robyns
The Hanging of Margaret Dickson by Alison J Butler
A History Maker by Alasdair Gray
When They Lay Bare by Andrew Greig
Books set in Selkirkshire
An Early Fall by John Craig McDonald
Her Ladyship's Companion by Evangeline Collins
Here Burns My Candle by Liz Curtis Higgs (1st book in series)
The Monastery by Walter Scott
September by Rosamunde Pilcher
A Stranger Came Ashore by Mollie Hunter
Books set in Shetland
Heaven at Sunrise by Leona Karr
An Island Apart by Lillian Beckwith
Death on a Longship by Marsali Taylor
Dreaming in Norwegian by Frankie Valente
A Handful of Ash by Marsali Taylor
The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar: Solving the Oak Island Mystery 
Night Waking by Sarah Moss
The Pirate by Walter Scott
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves (1st book of The Shetland Quartet)
Sacrifice by S.J. Bolton
The Scream by Joan Aiken
Books set in Stirlingshire
Blue Bells of Scotland by Laura Vosika (1st book in trilogy)
Boyracers by Alan Bissett
California by Ray Banks
Face Down O'er the Border by Kathy Lynn Emerson
The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett (1st book in The Lymond Chronicles)
The Hired Lad by Ian Campbell Thomson
The Lion at Bay by Robert Low
Rob Roy by Walter Scott
The Underground City by Jules Verne
Whit, or Isis Amongst the Unsaved by Iain Banks
Books set in Sutherland
The Barber Surgeons Hairshirt by Douglas Lindsay
Crappit Heids for Tea: Recollections of a Highland Childhood by Anne Tindley
The Cutting Edge Of Barney Thomson by Douglas Lindsay
Death of a Gossip by M.C. Beaton (1st book of Hamish Macbeth series)
The Exile of Sara Stevenson by Darci Hannah
Polar Nights by Simon Hacker
The Unbelievers by Alastair Sim
Books set in West Lothian
The Burry Man's Day by Catriona McPherson (Dandy Gilver #2)
Gibbo: The Davie Gibson Story by Chris Westcott
Hail Philpstoun's Queen: And Other Tales From The Shale by Barbara Pattullo
The Importance of Being Awkward: The Autobiography of Tam Dalyell by Tam Dalyell
The Lion Wakes by Robert Low
Relatively Guilty by William H.S. McIntyre
Books set in Wigtownshire
The 39 Steps by John Buchan (1st book in Richard Hannay series)
Accent O the Mind by Rab Wilson
After the Armistice Ball by Catriona McPherson (1st book in Dandy Gilver series)
The Darkness & the Deep by Aline Templeton
Ferguut by Anonymous
The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey #7)
A Galloway Childhood by Ian Niall
Guy Mannering by Walter Scott
Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets by Jessica Fox
Wow an amazing job Diane ! Thank you so much
A book set in the city of Glasgow, but not focusing on the city's problems with poverty or crime (which most books do). It just celebrates the distinctive style and humour of the place (the book is also dedicated to Glasgow, to acknowledge its role as another main 'character' in the piece):
Head for the Edge, Keep Walking
Around the World in 80 Books
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