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Summary
"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... Full description
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"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."--provided by publisher. |
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Physical Description: |
292 pages ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
9781643138893 1643138898 |
Author Notes: |
She writes novels, short stories, nonfiction, and plays. Her series include Margaret and Bitsy, Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery, and the Highland Bookshop Mystery. Her awards include the 2000 Sherwood Anderson Award for short fiction for More or Less, the 2001 Virginia Highlands Creative Writing Contest, first prize for novel, Wilder Rumors, the 2012 Suspense Magazine's Best of 2012 for Last Wool and Testament, and the 2013 Lovey Award for Best Paranormal for Last Wool and Testament, and the 2015 Lovey Award for Best Paranormal for Plagued by Quilt. (Bowker Author Biography) |