Daily Cheap Reads posted about these. This is her backlist going back to the 1980s. They were previously trade published by St. Martin's and others.
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Inspector Faro series of Victoria detective novels, which are set in Edinburgh around the 1870s. Knight also has a series of novels featuring Faro's daughter, Rose McQuinn,
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Books From Scotland
There are 11 books from the 2 series plus one biography of Robert Louis Stevenson and what looks like fan fiction for Great Expectations, all $.99 each.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_1?...qid=1346192193
First book in Inspector Faro series
Enter Second Murderer
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'The Gruesome Convent Murders'
Prime suspects are a fanatical nun, an aristocratic hermit and a public schoolboy in a chronicle of terror, betrayal, greed and violence. As this sensational case for which the murderer has been executed is reopened when a second victim is claimed, D.I Faro is drawn into the shady underworld beyond Victorian middle-class Edinburgh's theatres and salons.
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First book in Rose McQuinn series
The Inspector's Daughter
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Rose McQuinn returns to Edinburgh from the American wild west of 1895. Her baby has died while her husband Danny, working with Pinkerton’s Detective Agency in Arizona goes missing. She has little time to grieve before she unwittingly takes on a new career by agreeing to investigate the strange behaviour of the husband of her childhood friend Alice.. But what appears to be an adulterous affair suggests something much more sinister, the brutal and still unsolved murder of a servant girl. Whatever heartbreak lies in store, Rose must discover the truth. From her home in Solomon’s Tower on Arthur’s Seat, aided by a wild deerhound who befriends her, her fist investigation puts her own life in deadly danger.
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