CITY · UNITED KINGDOMBooks set in Edinburgh
55.949, -3.200
28 books · 22 authors · 1824–2024
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Most-set authors
Ian Rankin (4) · Irvine Welsh (3) · Alexander McCall Smith (2) · Doug Johnstone (1) · Claire Askew (1) · Iain Banks (1)
Genres
literary fiction (8) · mystery & crime (7) · fantasy (2) · romance (1) · thriller & suspense (1) · historical fiction (1)
Books set here
Set in Edinburgh (24)
A Dark Matter
Doug Johnstone
funeral home and PI agency
All the Hidden Truths
Claire Askew
college shooting aftermath
Black and Blue
Ian Rankin
Primary setting
Complicity
Iain Banks
Cameron Colley journalist base
Fleshmarket Close
Ian Rankin
primary setting
Glue
Irvine Welsh
working-class housing schemes
Hazardous Spirits
Anbara Salam
1920s spiritualist Edinburgh
Knots and Crosses
Ian Rankin
primary setting
One Day
David Nicholls
where characters meet
One Good Turn
Kate Atkinson
Edinburgh Festival crime
Past Lying
Val McDermid
Covid lockdown, Historic Cases Unit
Quite Ugly One Morning
Christopher Brookmyre
murder mystery setting
Regeneration
Pat Barker
Craiglockhart War Hospital WWI shell-shock
The Fair Botanists
Sara Sheridan
Royal Botanic Garden, 1822
The Library of the Dead
T L Huchu
dystopian near-future Edinburgh
The Naming of the Dead
Ian Rankin
Primary setting
The Night Sessions
Ken MacLeod
near-future post-Faith Wars city
The Other Mrs Walker
Mary Paulson-Ellis
present-day Edinburgh chapters
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
James Hogg
primary urban setting
The Sunday Philosophy Club
Alexander McCall Smith
Edinburgh New Town setting
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Maggie O Farrell
primary setting
The Wages of Sin
Kaite Welsh
Victorian Edinburgh, medical school
44 Scotland Street
Alexander McCall Smith
Scotland Street New Town
Marabou Stork Nightmares
Irvine Welsh
Edinburgh council estate (Muirhouse)
Notable locations in Edinburgh
Craiglockhart War Hospital, Edinburgh1Edinburgh New Town1Muirhouse1Muirhouse, Edinburgh1
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Fleshmarket Close
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