Will I love The Bookseller of Inverness?

The Bookseller of Inverness is an enthralling mystery set during the years after the events of the Battle of Culloden in 1745. It portrays the uneasy accord in Inverness at the time, with the Jacobites (well, those who survived the repercussions and the battle itself of 1746) and Hanoverians living in an uneasy discord that threatens to crack at the slightest provocation.

We have multiple characters from both sides of the divide, but our main character is Iain, a wounded Jacobite survivor of the battle, who is content with his bookshop until events draw him back into the conspiracies and… show more.

This is a gripping historical crime story full of curious and appealing characters. Beautifully written with touches of wry humour, Maclean also shows the traumatic and heart-rending complications of Jacobite Scotland.

Loved the main characters in the historical context immersed into the setting. Scotland Forever! Poor Bonnie Prince Charley.

It’s not often we Scots get to read about our history from a Scottish persepctive, and this crime novel took us right into the aftermath of Culloden, where the Government troops slaughtered the Jacobites under Bonny Prince Charlie. Six years later, survivor Iain MacGillivray finds a dead man in his bookshop, and his desire for peace is tested as a new Jacobite plot begins.

Maclean recreates the tense atmosphere in this garrison town, where memories of the atrocities after the battle are still vividly alive, where the Grandes Dames still meet to toast the king over the water, and the… show more.