Bagpipes & Blackmail: A Killrannoch Keep Cozy Mystery

The piper was supposed to confess everything.
He didn’t get the chance.

Moira Sinclair has organized larger disasters than a Highland music festival. She has handled the folding tables, the competing whisky tastings, the vendor who set up directly in front of the fire evacuation sign. She has a clipboard. She has a system.

What she doesn’t have a system for: a piper who’s been quietly paying blackmail for three years, a threatening note demanding a public confession at the festival’s closing performance, and a body found before that performance ever happened.

Hamish Calder was going to tell the truth. About stolen compositions. About money that had been moving through the wrong accounts for longer than anyone wanted to admit. About a secret someone in this village had been protecting for fourteen years.

He was going to say all of it. Out loud. On stage.

Somebody made sure he didn’t.

Now Moira has an envelope with an account number. A dead man’s private ledger. A rival piper who knows more than he’s saying. And the growing suspicion that the blackmail was never really the point — it was just the thing sitting on top of something considerably worse.

The music was stolen. The money was laundered. And the Keep’s archivist with the clipboard is the only one connecting the dots.

Good thing she’s very good with records.

Bagpipes & Blackmail is Book 4 in the Killrannoch Keep Cozy Mystery series — where the loch keeps its secrets, the stones keep theirs, and Moira Sinclair is running out of places to file the things she keeps finding.