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Lexie Conyngham
Samuel Seabury has travelled from war-torn Connecticut, seeking consecration as the first Episcopal Bishop in America. Turned away in England, he ventures further into Scotland, and up to Aberdeen, his…
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Edinburgh 1810: Charles Murray of Letho, a young gentleman of means, is in much demand: a rich widow, an old friend, and new military acquaintances all need his help. But…
The recently married Hippolyta Napier is making a new life amidst Aberdeenshire’s dark woods and pure, flowing waters. But suspicion, intrigue and death await at her new home, and the…
The dreadful day is approaching for the Napiers in Ballater: Hippolyta Napier’s mother is coming to stay. But Mrs. Fettes is not just in Aberdeenshire to visit her youngest daughter…
An ancient Scottish university is wracked by murder. A vindictive professor, an uncouth student, and a man seeking ministry lie dead, but who wanted to kill them? Charles Murray, a…
Rural Fife, 1804: Scoggie Castle is cold and grim, but a refuge to the disinherited Charles Murray. Then a series of mysterious deaths shakes family and servants alike, and splits…
Lt. George Murray needs his brother Charles’ help. One of his fellow officers has not heard from his wife in Edinburgh for several weeks, and he’s worried. George would go…
When Toby’s mother, Tibet activist Susan Hepplewhite, dies, he is determined to honour her memory. He finds her diaries and decides to have them translated into English. But his mother…
The most curious sensation of being watched …Letho, Fife, 1816: Murray and his guests all have good reasons for not attending Edinburgh’s winter season, even down to the new maid…
Far from the Blitz, Marian Cowie is reluctantly resting in rural Aberdeenshire when a German ‘plane crashes nearby. An airman goes missing, and bones are revealed. Marian is sure she…
A man lies under the tawny earth, hands still clutching the knife that killed him. Thorfinn Sigurdarson, Earl of all Orkney and Caithness, has made a mistake, and he won’t…
The sun is shining, Ballater is full of wealthy visitors, and Mrs. Kynoch’s school for young ladies is flourishing - until one pupil, daughter of a slave-owner, vanishes. Has she…
No one can think why a man has been murdered at the standing stone, nor why passing farmer has also been attacked. But as Hippolyta Napier does her best to…
Charlie Rob has never thought of politics, nor strayed far from his Aberdeenshire birthplace. But when John Leith of Leith Hall takes him under his wing, his life changes completely…
Hippolyta Napier was hoping for good tenants for her new cottage, but the first resident is already dead. Who was he? Why was he there? And will the disappearance of…
Charles Murray is in Edinburgh when tragedy strikes him. The deaths of a lawyer and a servant not only draw him down to the homes of the capital’s grim underclass…
It’s a long walk home to Ulster from Glasgow University - and even longer when the journey is interrupted by murder. Murray of Letho is staying with an old friend…
St. Andrews, 1818: a fiddle player is found dead in a professor’s fishpond. Can Murray solve the mystery, and save his pretty widow?
Eliot, a bad-tempered merchant, feeling under the weather. Catriona, an archaeologist leading a student dig, when she finds something unexpected. Tom, a microbiologist, investigating a new disease with a stigma…
A red dawn breaks over winter woodland, where two men stand, pistols drawn. Political strife has come to peaceful Ballater, bringing death in its wake, and Hippolyta Napier is once…
A violent double murder in a lonely, empty house. Not the kind of mystery that Charles Murray and his old friend Blair expect to find when they are trapped in…
