In the latest novel in the beloved Highland Bookshop Mystery Series, a
murder at a baronial manor leads to a poisonous game of cat and
mouse--with the women of Yon Bonnie Books playing to win.
After 93 well-lived years, Violet MacAskill is ready to simplify her
life. Her eccentric solution? She'll throw a decanting and decluttering
party at her family home--a Scottish Baronial manor near the seaside
town of Inversgail, Scotland. Violet sets aside everything she wants or
needs, then she invites her many friends in to sip sherry and help
themselves to whatever they want from all that's left.
Janet Marsh and Christine Robertson, two of the women who own Yon Bonnie
Books in Inversgail, enjoy themselves at the party. Not everyone who
attends has a good time, though. Wendy Erskine, director of the
Inversgail museum, is found dead, and rumors swirl about food poisoning
from a local food truck. Then Violet tells Constable Hobbs that a tin of
rat poison is missing. And when Hobbs' own grandmother comes under
suspicion for murder, he enlists the women from Yon Bonnie Books, and
the race is on to find the murderer.
But where do they begin? Are there clues in the "Shocking Stockings"
exhibit at the museum? Will the antique scrapbook pasted full of trivia
about arsenic and bygone poisoners offer a solution? Or does the answer
lie closer to home--is one of Violet's friends truly toxic? Poisonous
games are afoot in Inversgail and the women of Yon Bonnie Books are
playing to win.
