22 Best scotland books like The Second Cut by Louise Welsh

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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.…

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1. Naming the Bones

By: Louise Welsh , Welsh

3.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

Professor Murray Watson is rather a sad sack. His family, his career, his affair...not even drinkin… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • crime

2. Laidlaw (Jack Laidlaw, #1)

By: William McIlvanney

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

The unorthodox, complex, sardonically humorous, intriguing policeman Jack Laidlaw makes his debut i… read more

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3. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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  • british literature
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1) by Mark Billingham

4. The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1)

By: Mark Billingham

4.11

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingh… read more

Similar categories in Mark Billingham's The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1) book and Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24) by Ian Rankin

5. A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24)

By: Ian Rankin

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The brand-new John Rebus thriller from the #1 international bestseller Ian Rankin. John Rebus st… read more

Similar categories in Ian Rankin's A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24) book and Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • british literature
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. Queen Macbeth

By: Val McDermid

3.77

Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition

Shakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags t… read more

Similar categories in Val McDermid's Queen Macbeth book and Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. 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 Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • audiobook
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

Cover of Squeaky Clean (Squeaky Clean, #1) by Callum McSorley

9. Squeaky Clean (Squeaky Clean, #1)

By: Callum McSorley

4.10

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Half the Glasgow polis think DI Alison McCoist is bent. The other half just think she's a fuck-up. … read more

Similar categories in Callum McSorley's Squeaky Clean (Squeaky Clean, #1) book and Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Edge of the Grave (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery #1) by Robbie Morrison

10. Edge of the Grave (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery #1)

By: Robbie Morrison

4.19

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Glasgow, 1932. When the son-in-law of one of the city’s wealthiest families is found floating in… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of 1989 (Allie Burns, #2) by Val McDermid

11. 1989 (Allie Burns, #2)

By: Val McDermid

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the new installment to her historical crime series that began with 1979, internationally bestsel… read more

Similar categories in Val McDermid's 1989 (Allie Burns, #2) book and Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • mystery thriller
  • british literature
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. The Heretic (Duncan McCormack #2)

By: Liam McIlvanney

4.24

Format: 400 pages, ebook

From the award-winning author comes a much-anticipated sequel to the Scottish Crime Book of the Yea… read more

Similar categories in Liam McIlvanney's The Heretic (Duncan McCormack #2) book and Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • lgbt
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. Paper Cup

By: Karen Campbell

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What if going back means you could begin again? Rocked by a terrible accident, homeless Kelly ne… read more

Similar categories in Karen Campbell's Paper Cup book and Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • audiobook
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of May God Forgive (Harry McCoy, #5) by Alan  Parks

14. May God Forgive (Harry McCoy, #5)

By: Alan Parks

4.36

Format: 372 pages, ebook

Detective Harry McCoy returns in the suspenseful, atmospheric fifth instalment in Alan Park's inter… read more

Similar categories in Alan Parks's May God Forgive (Harry McCoy, #5) book and Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Voices of the Dead (Raven, Fisher and Simpson #4) by Ambrose Parry

15. 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 Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • lgbt
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of The Long Knives by Irvine Welsh

17. The Long Knives

By: Irvine Welsh

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Justice can be a blunt instrument "Men like him usually tell the story. In business. Politics. Medi… read more

Similar categories in Irvine Welsh's The Long Knives book and Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We're all confused youths, pal. We just get better at covering it up."

-Irvine Welsh, The Long Knives

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18. Deadly Animals

By: Marie Tierney

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Finding a dead body is not normal. But Ava is not a normal teenager. In this chilling debut mystery… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. The Party House

By: Lin Anderson

3.47

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

The Party House by Lin Anderson is a deeply atmospheric psychological thriller set in the Scottish … read more

Similar categories in Lin Anderson's The Party House book and Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • mystery thriller
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Confidence (Anna and Fin, #2) by Denise Mina

20. Confidence (Anna and Fin, #2)

By: Denise Mina

3.19

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Deception. Theft. Murder. All you need is confidence. A brand new escapist thriller from the award-… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. The Cliff House

By: Chris Brookmyre

3.79

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Seven women. Seven sins. One night of judgment. Jen Dunne is forty-two and getting married for the … read more

Similar categories in Chris Brookmyre's The Cliff House book and Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • mystery thriller
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quaker (Duncan McCormack #1) by Liam McIlvanney

22. The Quaker (Duncan McCormack #1)

By: Liam McIlvanney

4.10

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

The Quaker is watching you… It is 1969 and Glasgow has been brought to its knees by a serial kil… read more

Similar categories in Liam McIlvanney's The Quaker (Duncan McCormack #1) book and Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • mystery thriller
  • lgbt
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. The Cracked Mirror

By: Chris Brookmyre

4.07

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT THAT CRIME NOVEL You know Johnny Hawke. Hard-bitten LAP… read more

Similar categories in Chris Brookmyre's The Cracked Mirror book and Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of To Die in June (Harry McCoy, #6) by Alan  Parks

24. To Die in June (Harry McCoy, #6)

By: Alan Parks

4.33

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman enters a Glasgow police station to report her son missing, but no record can be found of th… read more

Similar categories in Alan Parks's To Die in June (Harry McCoy, #6) book and Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Estate by Denzil Meyrick

25. The Estate

By: Denzil Meyrick

4.05

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Inheritance can be murder... Sebastian Pallander's death leaves behind a multi-billion-dollar fi… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • scotland
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel by Denise Mina

26. The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel

By: Denise Mina

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Philip Marlowe is on the hunt for a missing heiress in L.A. —and up against a rival PI—in this smar… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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27. Three Fires

By: Denise Mina

3.73

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning master of crime fiction, Denise Mina re-imagines the "Bonfire of the Vanitie… read more

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

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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28. 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 Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Cast a Cold Eye (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery, #2) by Robbie Morrison

29. Cast a Cold Eye (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery, #2)

By: Robbie Morrison

4.34

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

In 1930s Glasgow, partners Jimmy Dreghorn and Archie McDaid face a danger that threatens to set the… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Morrison's Cast a Cold Eye (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery, #2) book and Louise Welsh's The Second Cut

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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30. The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself

By: Nick Bryant

4.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Forever War tells the story of how America's political polarization is 250 years in the making,… read more

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  • audiobook

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Louise Welsh , Welsh

3.32

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Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

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Mark Billingham

4.11

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4.20

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4.10

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3.96

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4.08

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