Raymond Stone
Novels of Scotland, software, and the space between. Author of the Wardstane Chronicles, the DI Cormac Buchan Investigations, and the Pondlife novels.

Raymond Stone: novels of Scotland

Dry, warm, and unmistakably Scottish: five series and a shelf of standalone novels, all by Raymond Stone.

Standalone Novels

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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The Kairos Testament

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The Boy at the Shore

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a.I.?

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Ball, Then Breakfast

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SEB533: Four Years of Green Screen

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The Test Data

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Good Standing

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The Next Reveal

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What Was Left Behind

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The Long Dark

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60 Days in the Year of a Life

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The Least Useful Man in Scotland

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The Last Ward

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Scripta Manent

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Intrusive

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Hmm

Pondlife

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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Book 1

Merge Conflict

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Book 2

Breaking Change

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Book 3

End of Life

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Book 4

Rebase

The Wardstane Chronicles

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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Book 1

The Gangrel Boy

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Book 2

The Harrowed Field

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Book 3

The Elfin Mile

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Book 4

The Mirk Years

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Book 5

The Last Hosting

The DI Cormac Buchan Investigations

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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Book 1

Under the Haar

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Book 2

Slack Water

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Book 3

The Judging Ring

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Book 4

Beneath the Moss

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Book 5

The Quiet Trade

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Book 6

The Leading Light

DI Buchan: The Early Years

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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Book 1

The Girnal

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Book 2

The Teller

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Book 3

The Watermark

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Book 4

The Angels' Share

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Book 5

The Long Service

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Book 6

The Wanting Years

The Aberdeenshire Postman

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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Book 1

The Longest Post Round

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Book 2

Every Door

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Book 3

Special Delivery

The Legacy Unit

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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Book 1

The Second Source

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Book 2

Sufficiency

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Book 3

Disclosure

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Book 4

Habit and Repute

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Book 5

No Live Case

The Fifteen

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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Book 1

Distress

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Book 2

Eight to Seven

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Book 3

The Third Verdict

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Book 4

Commencement

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Book 5

Two Thirds

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Book 6

Binary

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Book 7

Clean

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Book 8

Tholed Assize

Cardno Precognition

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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Book 1

The Same Words

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Book 2

The Inquiry

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Book 3

The Picture House

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Book 4

The Toolpusher

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Book 5

Not Proven

Try Resetting the Router

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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Book 1

Performing Beyond Expectations

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Book 2

Original Decision Maintained