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 . . .
