Molly MacRae is the national bestselling author of the Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery Series, including Crewel and Unusual, and the Highland Bookshop Mystery Series, including Plaid and Plagiarism and Scones and Scoundrels. Her short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazines for more than twenty years, and she has won the Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction. Molly lives with her family in Champaign, Illinois.
An array of neighbors, such as a clueless mystery writer who styles himself a supersleuth, adds color, humor, and even wisdom to the proceedings. Cozy fans are in for a treat. Enough motives and suspects to provide plenty of twists and turns. With its cast of appealing amateur sleuths and quirky town residents, this leisurely paced mystery will attract cozy fans of Paige Shelton's 'Scottish Bookshop' mysteries, as well as lovers of biblio-mysteries by Carolyn Hart or Vicki Delany. MacRae is a skilled writer. She has great characters. A thoroughly enjoyable read. Details of small-town life on the western coast of Scotland enliven this smooth-flowing cozy, populated by a cast of engaging characters. A new cozy mystery series in which the drama is tempered with humor.--Marilyn Stasio