Rintoul, David 1948-

Pulse by Julian Barnes( Sound Recording )
3 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 110 libraries worldwide
Julian Barnes presents a collection of short stories featuring characters who are driven by success and loss. In East Wind, a divorced estate agent is happily in love with a European waitress, but nonetheless decides to investigate her enigmatic past. In Marriage Lines, a widower travels to a secluded Scottish island to relive his happiest memory. After a falling out, a couple reconciles over flowers in Gardener's World. And in The Limner, a deaf painter discovers his patron's true likeness.

The irresistible inheritance of Wilberforce by Paul Torday( Sound Recording )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 110 libraries worldwide
Late on summer evening, Wilberforce - rich, young, work-obsessed and self-contained - makes an unexpected detour on the way home from the software company he owns and unwittingly takes the first step on a journey that will change his life. His uncharacteristically impulsive act leads him to the door of Caerlyon Hall and the domain of Francis Black, a place where wine, hospitality and affection flow freely. Through Franics, the eccentric and enigmatic owner of Caerlyonm, Wilberforce is initiated into a life he could never have imagined.

The water's edge by Karin Fossum( Sound Recording )
2 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 104 libraries worldwide
When a couple discovers the body of a boy and sees a man limping away from the scene, Inspectors Konrad Sejer and Jakob Skarre make inquiries throughout the community of Solberglia and find the case complicated by another boy's disappearance.

Found wanting by Robert Goddard( Sound Recording )
6 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 97 libraries worldwide
Richard Eusden is on his way to work in London one unremarkable winter morning when he is intercepted by his ex-wife, Gemma. She has sad news his old friend, her other ex-husband, Marty Hewitson, is dying. He needs a favour done for him--now, today, at once. Eusden reluctantly agrees, but it turns into a race for life, his and Marty's, across Europe and into the Nordic heart of a mystery that somehow connects Marty's long dead grandfather, an Isle of Wight police officer, with the tragic fate of the Russian Royal Family.

When the devil holds the candle by Karin Fossum( Sound Recording )
2 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 93 libraries worldwide
When the theft of a purse from a stroller results in an infant's death, two teenagers are in trouble. Unaware of the enormity of their crime, Zipp and Andreas are intent on committing still another. They follow an elderly woman home, and Andreas enters her house with his ever-reliable switchblade. Motionless in the dark, Zipp waits for his friend to come out. Inspector Konrad Sejer and his colleague Jacob Skarre see no connection between the infant's death and the reported disappearance of a local delinquent. While confusion mounts in the world outside, the chilling, heart-stopping truth unfolds inside the old woman's home. Unflappable as ever, Sejer digs below the surface of small-town tranquillity in an effort to understand how and why violence destroys everyday lives.

Requiem by Clare Francis( Sound Recording )
1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 75 libraries worldwide
The idyllic Scottish home of ex-rock star Nick Mackenzie and his exotic wife Alusha is a haven of peace and security. Until the day a small plane with a deadly chemical cargo flies off course. In the tragic aftermath, Daisy Field, environmental campaigner, picks up the trail. She's determined to fight the "profits before safety" attitude of the agrochemical industry. But to win she needs Nick's millions, and Nick is facing difficulties of his own...

Doctor Finlay. Set 2( visu )
1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 74 libraries worldwide
Dr. Finlay survived World War II and now in the aftermath is has been serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He returns to the small town of Tannochbrae in Scotland expecting to resume life as it was. However, while his irascible colleague Dr. Cameron is unchanged, everything else has been affected by the war. His fiancee has decided not to wait for him, he must deal with new colleagues and even the arrangements of the practice are overturned as the resolutely chaste housekeeper is wooed by the local chemist.

The last raider by Douglas Reeman( Sound Recording )
1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 66 libraries worldwide
The last German commerce raider Vulkan, under the command of Felix von Steiger, sailed from Kiel in December, 1917 to destroy every ship and cargo going to Germany's enemies.

In another light by Andrew Greig( Sound Recording )
2 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 57 libraries worldwide
In the early nineteen thirties, an ambitious young Scotsman sets out on the long sea voyage to Penang, eager to take up his post running a maternity hospital in the colony, and eager for the new opportunities that will open up for him there. He very quickly makes the acquaintance of two sisters, both very beautiful young women, one looking for a husband, the other married. In the confines of the ship, when conventional morality is shelved for the duration, the seeds of a scandal which will rock the close island community of Penang are sown. Seventy years later, forty-something engineer Edward Mackay, recuperating from illness on the wild isolated island of Orkney, begins to unravel the story of a man he thought he knew: his father, the respectable Doctor Alexander Mackay, now years dead after a long and blameless career.

Doctor Finlay winning the peace( visu )
1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 44 libraries worldwide
In post-war Tannochbrae, the idealistic Dr. John Finlay confronts diseases without antibiotics and copes with the personal medical crises of families in a Scottish town.