Murder at the Highland Games: Book 4

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In Locharran, the annual Highland Games fill the village with noise and colour. Ally McKinley watches the crowds gather for Scottish dancing and bagpipes, the familiar faces half lost in the bustle, until the day takes a darker turn. In the middle of tossing the caber, champion challenger Archie Armstrong drops dead. Ally is first to spot what the panic tries to hide. This was no accident. It was murder.

As she begins to dig, motives rise quickly to the surface, including among the guests staying in her own cosy guesthouse. Archie’s glamorous wife Patti plays the part of the perfect widow, even as rumours of infidelity have been circulating. Angus, her uncle and a cranky gamekeeper, has his own fury to answer for. Then there are the local competitors, tired of Archie’s winning streak and the way he dominated the field.

Ally starts narrowing her suspects, only to be shaken when her chief suspect is found dead by the loch, a threatening note clutched in their fingers. With a killer still at large, the Games leave a different kind of tension behind. As the sun sets over the Highlands, Ally is forced to ask how far this case is willing to go.