Raymond Stone Novels of Scotland

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Raymond Stone: novels of Scotland

Dry, warm, and unmistakably Scottish: nine series and a shelf of standalone novels, 61 books in all.

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Workplace comedy Pondlife Start with Merge Conflict Pondlife Software Ltd is a small, fully remote UK company that makes a video editing app nobody quite understands... Historical fantasy The Wardstane Chronicles Start with The Gangrel Boy A five-book epic fantasy hidden inside the real history of the Scottish Wars of Independence: every recorded event... Crime fiction The DI Cormac Buchan Investigations Start with Under the Haar Six inverted mysteries, Columbo-style: you know, or all but know, the killer from the first page, and the pleasure... Crime fiction DI Buchan: The Early Years Start with The Girnal A six-book prequel to the DI Cormac Buchan Investigations, following young Detective Sergeant Buchan through his... Comic fiction The Aberdeenshire Postman Start with The Longest Post Round A single, ongoing story of a year on the longest rural post round in Aberdeenshire, and the man who only meant to... Crime fiction The Legacy Unit Start with The Second Source When Police Scotland was assembled in 2013 out of eight legacy forces, their records did not become one thing: they... Crime fiction The Fifteen Start with Distress For three hundred years a Scottish jury could say guilty, not guilty or not proven, and fifteen people could convict... Crime fiction Cardno Precognition Start with The Same Words A former Grampian CID sergeant from Banff, finished in the job for telling a defence agent the truth, now earns her... Comic fiction Try Resetting the Router Start with Performing Beyond Expectations A comic novel in two books, based on a true story: one man, a farmhouse in Aberdeenshire, a small red light on a box...

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Standalone Novels

17 books

Novels by Raymond Stone that share no world or characters with the series above: comic, dark, historical and science-fictional, but always the same dry, warm, unmistakably Scottish voice.

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Pondlife

4 books · View the series →

Pondlife Software Ltd is a small, fully remote UK company that makes a video editing app nobody quite understands, run by management that mostly communicates by voice memo from somewhere in the Atlantic. Four novels of standups, outages and unhandled exceptions, told from the inside by the engineers and the QA team who actually keep it running.

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The Wardstane Chronicles

5 books · View the series →

A five-book epic fantasy hidden inside the real history of the Scottish Wars of Independence: every recorded event happens exactly as the chronicles say it did, and everything they could not see, the dead who will not rest, the order sworn to keep them, and the boy who can hear them, is where the real story runs. From a beggar boy in Ettrick Forest in 1296 to the field at Bannockburn.

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The DI Cormac Buchan Investigations

6 books · View the series →

Six inverted mysteries, Columbo-style: you know, or all but know, the killer from the first page, and the pleasure is watching him get caught. Set in the villages, harbours and braes of North-East Scotland, with Detective Inspector Cormac Buchan, who never raises his voice, drives a Volvo the colour of cold tea, grows prize leeks, and wins every time by being underestimated.

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DI Buchan: The Early Years

6 books · View the series →

A six-book prequel to the DI Cormac Buchan Investigations, following young Detective Sergeant Buchan through his apprenticeship under Detective Inspector Jean Sangster in the Turriff CID office of Grampian Police, 2004 to 2011, one doctrine and one case at a time, ending exactly where the original series' memory of 'Buchan's first case' begins.

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The Aberdeenshire Postman

3 books · View the series →

A single, ongoing story of a year on the longest rural post round in Aberdeenshire, and the man who only meant to keep the job for a fortnight.

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The Legacy Unit

5 books · View the series →

When Police Scotland was assembled in 2013 out of eight legacy forces, their records did not become one thing: they stayed eight things in one building, in eight filing systems, in three warehouses. The Legacy Unit follows the small team whose job is to put the same question to all of it at once, and the cases that only make sense once thirty-year-old paper from two different forces is finally read on the same day.

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The Fifteen

8 books · View the series →

For three hundred years a Scottish jury could say guilty, not guilty or not proven, and fifteen people could convict on a vote of eight. Then Parliament abolished the third verdict and raised the bar to ten. The Fifteen follows one prosecution team through eight cases on either side of the change, and in every book the reader is shown the one room no real Scot is ever allowed to describe: the jury room.

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Cardno Precognition

5 books · View the series →

A former Grampian CID sergeant from Banff, finished in the job for telling a defence agent the truth, now earns her living taking precognitions for the defence along the Buchan coast. Solicitors send Elspeth Cardno the Crown's witness list and she sits in kitchens and harbour offices and writes down what each witness will actually say in the box. In every case the story the Crown has written down is not quite the story the witnesses tell. The series asks one question of one case, and in the end of Cardno herself: is the Crown's story true?

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Try Resetting the Router

2 books · View the series →

A comic novel in two books, based on a true story: one man, a farmhouse in Aberdeenshire, a small red light on a box in the porch, and the long, patient, entirely courteous collapse of customer service at a very large telephone company. No event in it should be assumed to be true. The physics is real.

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