I'm sick of summer here in the US and want to escape with a mystery or crime novel set in one of my favorite places, Scotland. Preferably urban Scotland. A thriller or a noir type would be great. *Not* looking for a cozy mystery.
Thanks!
Hello all,
I'm hoping you can help me locate a novel for my SO. It's apparently a romance title, with fantasy/scifi elements. She says of it: "The story is about a woman who I believe is vacationing in Scotland to forget her recent divorce. She is on a cliff and gets swept up by the wind and falls off. She goes into a coma, and while in the coma she goes back in time. She enters into another woman's body that is going to be married to either a noble man or a king or Duke of some kind"
She adds: "And she tries to go back to her present time and wakes up for a few seconds from her coma and the doctor taking care of her is the guy she gets married to back in old Scotland."
She also believes the word "Always" is in the title.
This sounds a heck of a lot like the plot of Outlander to me (which thanks to Ronald Moore, I've actually heard of), but apparently that's not it. Maybe this is common in romance novels?
I've no information on the publication date, though she's only taken to reading recently - and on a Kindle. I realize that doesn't help much.
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It's a children's novel, I'm pretty sure I read it between 2004 to '06 (it was sometime during elementary school years), about a boy and his younger sister. I believe they're on vacation somewhere in the UK (Ireland or Scotland, I think). It was like a "magical quest" type of story where the kids were given a task to find something in order to save some sort of magical being. I think it was based on Irish or Scottish folklore. There was something about birds... like follow the birds... Maybe magpies or starlings? The main characters might've visited Stonehenge at some point too.
Also, I think constellations might have been involved? At least on the cover. I believe it was supposed to be the first book in a series as well.
The book was about a Scottish woman from the Highlands, who used the Caledonian Sleeper train to get between there and London (I think for work). She had a fleeting romance with a man from the Middle East (perhaps Jordan or Oman), who was called Omar, and they had a baby together called Miranda. The woman and her now child had difficulties fitting in in their community, and that's all I remember - apart from the very random fact that the protagonist spent a lot of money on posh underwear. It was a chick-lit style paperback in the mid-2000s, and the author was female.
Full disclosure: I am not Scottish (American with distant Scottish ancestry) but I am curious to hear how Scottish people feel about the commonwealth.
ETA: Thank you all for your responses! As a citizen of a former English territory, I wish you all the best! Of course, with all the shit going on over here, I donβt think weβre really in a position to give our thoughts on anyone elseβs government.
Seeing how brutal Vollachia is, based on the skill of the Hunter who can destroy trees by shooting an arrow, would Subaru be forced to rely on his Authorities, namely Invisible Providence and, to an extent if Rem finally considers him an ally, Cor Leonis?
Considering the fact that Invisible Providence and the Sloth Witch Factor inside of him in general is a costly and risky technique he has, how can he survive without dying three or more times on the same location? Would Subaru's deactivated curses inside him survive the not-Black Serpent Mabeast black blood, if it's imbued with cursed poison? And how long does it take for the Mana Poisoning to take effect? A day, a week, months?
Had some luck here before, Iβm bored in lockdown and would love to find some more interesting people to talk to!!
Iβll keep it short and sweet. Iβm 21, Scottish, Aries, bisexual and poly.
I love music, Iβm a singer, and I also play keyboard, ukulele and kalimba. My fave genres rn are kpop and metal.
Iβm an artist, I love to create digital art. Iβm still learning so I donβt really have a style yet.
Iβm studying psychology and Iβll graduate this summer.
Iβm a gamer, I have a switch and a ps5 and love games like Skyrim and Witcher 3.
Some random things I love: the colour purple, foxes, being cosy, road trips, food, baths, and tattoos!
If I sound interesting feel free to drop me a message :)
They called him the Loch Ness Mobster.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 60%. (I'm a bot)
> The COVID-19 vaccines being used in the UK could reduce a person's risk of being admitted to hospital by as much as 94% four weeks after the first dose, new data suggests.
> Experts examined coronavirus hospital admissions in Scotland among people who have had their first jab and compared them to those who had not yet received a vaccine.
> Follow live coverage on Sky News as the PM is expected to address the House of Commons at 3.30pm and lead a Downing Street news conference at 7pm. Scientists from the Universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde, Aberdeen, Glasgow and St Andrews and Public Health Scotland looked at data on people who had received either the Pfizer/BioNTech jab or the one developed by scientists at the University of Oxford with AstraZeneca.
> Data for the two jabs combined showed that among people over the age of 80 - who are at high risk of severe disease - the reduction in risk of hospital admission was 81% four weeks after the first dose.
> Dr Murray urged people offered the vaccine to take their first and second doses, and said: "We can see from these data that you can protect yourself and your family and your friends and you can also protect the NHS by taking the vaccine."
> Researchers examined data between 8 December 8 and 15 February, and during this period, 1.14 million vaccines were administered in Scotland - 21% of the Scottish population.
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I sometimes feel uncomfortable when MC steal something from some people, sect or family. And sometimes don't even give justification. They explain this as seizing opportunity or luck. But when other try it, they are greedy.
I'm working on my first novel and one of my main characters is blind. The last thing I want to do is give an inaccurate or offensive portrayal of life as a blind individual. My novel is a mixture of sci-fi, horror, and comedy.
"An eerie quiet swept through a small college town as the last of its students left for their childhood homes at the start of Summer. It was something that happened every year and was looked forward to by the town's permanent residents. But there was a strange shift to it this year, an almost imperceptible quality that managed to go unnoticed by all except one."
I'm still in the planning stages of the plot so I don't have all the kinks worked out yet but in broad strokes a phenomenon occurs in the basement of a college town resident and they start to experiment with it to try and figure out what it is and why it's there. The story switches focus between what's happening with that and a local town rock band of recent graduates that's struggling to break into the music scene. The blind character, Katherine or Kat, is the band's 22 year old keyboardist. Her story mainly focuses on leaving the weird college bubble of opportunity and youth and the reality of joining the workforce. She's trying to figure out who she is as an adult in both a metaphorical and very literal sense.
If that sounds interesting just leave a comment or DM me and we can work out details.
Can see Someone's death, big events, minor or major stuff.
Not the usual Superhero stuff.
Ordinary person gaining powers and how they use it, like in the Chronicle film, Akira, and Jumper(book series)
UPDATE : NOT HIM. Donβt have the full details yet but the fingerprints ended up being only a partial match and DNA results were formal : not him. No idea how LE could have been so mistaken and how such misleading information could be leaked to the press. What a crazy turn of events. I feel like I have whiplash!
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/12/xavier-dupont-de-ligonnes-police-try-to-verify-identity-arrested-man-glasgow
UPDATE 2 : interesting article (in French) about the « industrial sized media catastrophe » surrounding what happened this weekend:
https://m.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/xavier-dupont-de-ligonnes-un-double-avertissement-pour-les-medias_fr_5da1f2c1e4b087efdbaf267b
ORIGINAL POST :
Major Unresolved Mysteries news!!
Accused of killing his entire family in Nantes, France in 2011 and then disappearing into thin air, Xavier DuPont de Ligonnès was arrested in the Glasgow airport today getting off of an airplane coming from Paris. Despite having an altered appearance (plastic surgery) and a fake passport, his fingerprints matched those on file.
Guys, Iβm speechless. This was one of the most baffling crimes in French history. Wasnβt sure they would ever find him or if he was still alive.
Sources say that he may have spent much of the past 8 year in the UK.
Waiting for more information...! Hopefully we will get some answers and that he will confess to the horrendous crime.
https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2019/10/11/xavier-dupont-de-ligonnes-retrouve-et-arrete-en-ecosse_6015202_3224.html
https://www.google.com/amp/www.leparisien.fr/amp/faits-divers/xavier-dupont-de-ligonnes-a-ete-retrouve-a-glasgow-11-10-2019-8171406.php
Now I'm just wondering - where'd my Glasgow?
