“Scottish Bookshop Mystery” series by Paige Shelton
- The Cracked Spine
1.5 A Christmas Tartan (Short story e-book; Not Reviewed)
2. Of Bags and Bagpipes
Recommended age: The Cracked Spine: 16 – 18; Adult
Of Bags and Bagpipes: Adult
In The Cracked Spine, Delaney Nichols surprises herself by responding to an ad for a job at a bookshop in Edinburgh after she is unexpectedly laid-off from her Natural History Museum job at a university in Kansas. She gets the job and meets many interesting people, most of whom seem very friendly and welcoming: her employer and co-workers, her employer’s business associates, her first taxi-driver, and the owner of the pub across the street from her job. But before she can settle into her new life, her employer’s sister is brutally murdered and a precious artifact goes missing. Can she sort out whom she can trust and solve the mystery without getting any of her new friends (or herself) killed?
Delaney’s story continues in Of Bags and Bagpipes. She is confronted by another tragic death connected to her work and her employer and once again gets caught up in solving the mystery.
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