
A murder in a garden turns the four new owners of Yon Bonnie
Books into amateur detectives, in a captivating new cozy
mystery novel from Molly MacRae.
Set in the weeks before the annual Inversgail Literature
Festival in Scotland, PLAID AND PLAGIARISM begins
on a morning shortly after the four women take possession of
their bookshop in the Highlands. Unfortunately, the move to
Inversgail hasnβt gone as smoothly as theyβd planned.
First, Janet Marsh is told sheβll have to wait before moving
into her new home. Then she finds out the house has been
vandalized. Again. The chief suspect? Una Graham, an advice
columnist for the local paperβwhoβs trying to make a name
for herself as an investigative reporter. When Janet and her
business partners go looking for clues at the house, they
find a bodyβitβs Una, in the garden shed, with a sickle in
her neck. Janet never did like that garden shed.
Who wanted Una dead? After discovering a cache of nasty
letters, Janet and her friends are beginning to wonder who
didnβt, including Janetβs ex-husband. Surrounded by
a cast of characters with whom readers will fall in love,
the new owners of Yon Bonnie Books set out to solve Unaβs
murder so they can get back to business.
A delightful and deadly new novel about recognizing oneβs
strengths and weaknessβwhile also trying to open a new book
shopβPLAID AND PLAGIARISM is the start of an
entertaining new Scottish mystery series
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