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Welcome back to the tiny Highland village of Locharran, where Ally McKinley – guesthouse owner and accidental detective – is about to stumble upon another dead body… and her next case.
Synopsis:
When Ally McKinley hears that well-known novelist Jodi Jones is going to host a writers’ retreat at the hotel just down the road, she’s delighted to offer rooms at her little guesthouse for some of the attendees. Ally is thrilled to join the group for one of their first sessions – but the retreat has barely begun before she finds the famous writer strangled in the ladies bathroom!
The cake tin and teapot come out as Ally begins to question her bookish guests. Accusations of plagiarism and infidelity start flying and it’s clear that more than one of the retreat attendees had a grudge against Jodi. But could any of them have resorted to murder?
When Ally discovers a diary in Jodi’s bedroom at the guesthouse with several pages ripped out of it, she thinks she’s close to cracking the case. But the plot thickens when another of the aspiring writers is found dead, only hours after she said she knew the identity of Jodi’s killer.
Not only is the murderer still in Locharran, they’re desperate to stop Ally getting to the truth. With her faithful puppy Flora by her side, can Ally unravel the clues and solve the mystery before she’s written out of the story for good?
Review:
This is the third book in the series and once again Ally ahs no intention in getting involved in a murder, but when she literally trips over the deceased, it's obvious she'll be curious about what has happened. Especially since half of the writers are staying at her b&b. As Ally starts to learn more about the writers she realizes everyone of them had reasons for wanting Jodi dead, and that includes her estranged husband, who lives on a commune. The more she digs, the more she realizes that the suspect will strike again to keep all their secrets safe and she is in more danger than she realizes. A fun book, I'm loving this series with an older character starting over!
About the Author:
The Runaway Wife was Dee’s first (published) novel, but in fact she wrote her very first book at around seven years of age! This was a love story which she duly illustrated before sewing all the pages together up one side. Writing was what she ‘was good at’ in school and she won several essay competitions, but then life got in the way and she didn’t pick up a pen again until after retirement.
Dee left Scotland and headed for London at the beginning of the swinging sixties. After typing her way round the West End she became an air stewardess on long haul routes with BA (then BOAC) for eight years. After that she did market research at Heathrow for both the government statistics and for BA, she became a sales rep., and was the receptionist at the Thames Television Studios in Teddington when they had the franchise.
She then ran a small B&B for ten years in Cornwall, where she lives with her husband. Dee has one son and two grandsons who live locally.
Dee has now written seven novels, the most recent being A Body at the Tearooms (the third in the Kate Palmer crime series). An eighth will be published later this year.
You can find Dee on Facebook and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DMacDonaldAuth
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