The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G. McLean

A gripping historical thriller set in Inverness in the wake of the 1746 battle of Culloden from twice CWA award-winning author S. G. MacLean.

After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades.
Six years later, with the clan chiefs routed and the Highlands subsumed into the British state, Iain lives a quiet life, working as a bookseller in Inverness. One morning Iain opens up shop and finds a stranger dead, his throat cut, and the murder weapon laid out in front of him—a sword with a white cockade on its hilt, the emblem of the Jacobites. With no sign of the killer, Iain soon finds himself embroiled in a web of deceit and a series of old scores to be settled in the ashes of war.