The new mystery in the Highland Bookshop series,
bringing together a body outside a pub, a visiting author
determined to find the killer, and a murderously good batch
of scones . . .
Inversgail, on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands,
welcomes home native daughter and best-selling environmental
writer Daphne Wood. Known as the icon of ecology, Daphne
will spend three months as the author in residence for the
Inversgail schools. Janet Marsh and her business partners at
Yon Bonnie Books are looking forward to hosting a gala book
signing for her. Daphne, who hasn’t set foot in Scotland in
thirty years, is . . . eccentric. She lives in the Canadian
wilderness, in a cabin she built herself, with only her dog
for a companion, and her people skills have developed a few
rough-hewn edges. She and the dog (which she insists on
bringing with her) cause problems for the school, the
library, and the bookshop even before they get to
Inversgail. Then, on the misty night they arrive, a young
man—an American who’d spent a night in the B&B above Yon
Bonnie Books—is found dead outside a pub.
Daphne did her Inversgail homework and knows that Janet and
her partners solved a previous murder. She tries to persuade
them to join her in uncovering the killer and the truth. To
prove she’s capable, she starts poking and prying. But
investigating crimes can be murder, and Daphne ends up dead,
poisoned by scones from the tearoom at Yon Bonnie Books.
Now, to save the reputation of their business—not to mention
the reputation of their scones—Janet and her partners must
solve both murders. And Daphne’s dog might be able to help
them, if only they can get it to stop howling. . .
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