17 must-read scotland books like Rizzio by Denise Mina

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Rizzio

By: Denise Mina

3.87

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

From the multi-award-winning master of crime, Denise Mina delivers a radical new take on one of the…

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Cover of The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G. MacLean

1. The Bookseller of Inverness

By: S.G. MacLean

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more

Similar categories in S.G. MacLean's The Bookseller of Inverness book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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2. The Maiden

By: Kate Foster

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more

Similar categories in Kate Foster's The Maiden book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. The Second Cut

By: Louise Welsh

3.96

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable.… read more

Similar categories in Louise Welsh's The Second Cut book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. The Last Witch of Scotland

By: Philip Paris

3.95

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Being a woman was her only crime. Scottish Highlands, 1727. In the aftermath of a tragic fire… read more

Similar categories in Philip Paris's The Last Witch of Scotland book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Scabby Queen

By: Kirstin Innes

3.72

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three days before her fifty-first birthday, Clio Campbell - one-hit-wonder, political activist, lif… read more

Similar categories in Kirstin Innes's Scabby Queen book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"At what point did the policeman stop? When he put his cock in? Whose was the sperm that had fathered her child? Was that erection, that constant need to get her knickers off all part of the performan…"

-Kirstin Innes, Scabby Queen

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6. To the Dogs

By: Louise Welsh

3.71

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

A TIMES BEST NEW CRIME FICTION OF THE MONTHJim Brennan is flying high. Against all odds, he is a bi… read more

Similar categories in Louise Welsh's To the Dogs book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. Voices of the Dead (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #4)

By: Ambrose Parry

4.28

Format: 416 pages, ebook

1854 marks the dawn of a scientific age. Queen Victoria delivers a healthy heir after receiving chl… read more

Similar categories in Ambrose Parry's Voices of the Dead (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #4) book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

Similar categories in Carys Davies's Clear book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain by Victoria Mackenzie

9. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

By: Victoria Mackenzie

3.85

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more

Similar categories in Victoria Mackenzie's For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • novella
"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"

-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

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10. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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11. The Tower

By: Flora Carr

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held ho… read more

Similar categories in Flora Carr's The Tower book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • novella
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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13. Music in the Dark

By: Sally Magnusson

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

1884. In a tenement room and kitchen in the town of Rutherglen, near Glasgow, a woman with stark in… read more

Similar categories in Sally Magnusson's Music in the Dark book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Ginger and Me

By: Elissa Soave

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The debut novel from the winner of the Primadonna Prize. Wendy is nineteen and living alone.All… read more

Similar categories in Elissa Soave's Ginger and Me book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • thriller
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Opposite of Lonely (Skelfs #5)

By: Doug Johnstone

4.14

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Even death needs company… The Skelf women are recovering from the cataclysmic events that nearly… read more

Similar categories in Doug Johnstone's The Opposite of Lonely (Skelfs #5) book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • mystery
  • crime
  • scotland
  • fiction
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16. Glasgow Boys

By: Margaret McDonald

4.39

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

A striking debut exploring the power of identity, community and the Scottish working class. This co… read more

Similar categories in Margaret McDonald's Glasgow Boys book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • scotland
  • fiction
Cover of Rizzio by Denise Mina

17. Rizzio

By: Denise Mina

3.87

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

From the multi-award-winning master of crime, Denise Mina delivers a radical new take on one of the… read more

Similar categories in Denise Mina's Rizzio book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • novella
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Embroidering Her Truth: Mary Queen of Scots and the Language of Power by Clare Hunter

18. Embroidering Her Truth: Mary Queen of Scots and the Language of Power

By: Clare Hunter

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion,… read more

Similar categories in Clare Hunter's Embroidering Her Truth: Mary Queen of Scots and the Language of Power book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • historical
  • scotland
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19. Hear No Evil

By: Sarah Smith

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In the burgeoning industrial city of Glasgow in 1817 Jean Campbell - a young, Deaf woman - is witne… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Smith's Hear No Evil book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Happiness Is Wasted on Me by Kirkland Ciccone

20. Happiness Is Wasted on Me

By: Kirkland Ciccone

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Cumbernauld was built to be the town of the future...that is, if the future looked like a really ru… read more

Similar categories in Kirkland Ciccone's Happiness Is Wasted on Me book and Denise Mina's Rizzio

  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
Cover of Whispers of the Dead (Rhona MacLeod Book 18) by Lin Anderson

21. Whispers of the Dead (Rhona MacLeod Book 18)

By: Lin Anderson

4.56

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

'Forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod has become one of the most satisfying characters in modern crime … read more

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