By: Lydia Travers
Many thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley for the ARC of this book and allowing me a stop on the book tour.
BLURB:
When members of a choir start dropping dead in the Highlands, Maud McIntyre and her lady’s maid Daisy go undercover to discover the inharmonious culprit. But will they uncover the killer before another murder takes place?
Edinburgh, 1911: When Maud and Daisy receive a letter from Daisy’s cousin, Clara, sharing her fears that two sudden deaths in her local choir weren’t accidental, at first Daisy thinks her cousin is overreacting. But Maud’s detective senses tell her something is afoot, and so they make haste to the Highlands to investigate.
As soon as they arrive, Maud and Daisy go undercover in the choir to find potential suspects. But with one murder deemed a heart attack, and the other declared an unfortunate drowning, Maud and Daisy have their work cut out when it comes to persuading the local police that perhaps the choir isn’t as perfectly in tune as everyone thinks…
But finally they receive a clue in the form of an anonymous letter. Enclosed is a rhyme which they’re certain holds the key to the next murder…
With the clock ticking down to another death, they know they can’t miss a beat – but will Maud and Daisy solve the mysterious rhyming verse before another singer is silenced, or will this case lead to their own untimely swan song?
MY REVIEW:
This is the third installment in the Scottish Ladies’ Detective Agency, and it does not disappoint. I have grown to love this cozy mystery series. Maud and Daisy are the perfect private detective duo. They are intelligent, funny, and very insightful. In this installment, the killer gives poetic clues and Maud and Daisy are able to figure them out when I just have absolutely no clue what they could mean! One of the things that I love about this series, besides from the location where it takes place, is that because this takes place in the early 1900s, Maud and Daisy do not have the modern technology that would be used today to figure out a murder. It really makes the reader appreciate all of the hard work that Maud and Daisy put into their investigating. You’ll never be able to figure out who the killer is in this fantastic whodunit. But go ahead and try to figure it out! I dare you.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lydia Travers was born in London. She moved progressively north until settling with her husband in a village on the edge of the Scottish Highlands. She has raised children, bred dogs and kept chickens; and for as long as she can remember has written for pleasure. A former legal academic and practitioner with a PhD in criminology, she now runs self-catering holiday accommodation, sings in a local choir and is walked daily by the family dog.
Lydia also writes as Linda Tyler and her first novel under that name, Revenge of the Spanish Princess, won a 2018 Romance Writers of America competition for the beginning of an historical romance. Her second novel The Laird’s Secret was Commended in the 2021 Scottish Association of Writers’ Pitlochry Quaich competition for the beginning of a romantic novel. Mischief in Midlothian won the 2022 Scottish Association of Writers’ Constable Silver Stag trophy. She has had a number of short stories published in magazines, journals and anthologies in the UK, the USA and Australia.
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Thank you for the review Kristin!
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