Highlands & Homicide : A Killranoch Keep Cozy Mystery
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HIGHLANDS & HOMICIDE A Killrannoch Keep Mystery
Moira Sinclair had a plan: inherit the Scottish castle, catalog the contents, figure out what she owned. It was a good plan. It lasted approximately one day.
On day two, she finds a body in one of the castle passages.
Now Moira- antiques cataloger, accidental amateur detective, and one of two Americans at the Nessie Festival- is untangling a two-hundred-year-old inheritance puzzle buried in the walls of a Highland keep. There’s a locket with a hidden map. A diary sealed beneath a solarium tile. Family secrets that half the village has been protecting for generations and the other half has been trying to unbury. And a murderer who very much wants Moira to stop asking questions.
Good thing she’s terrible at taking hints.
Armed with her spreadsheet, her gossipy best friend Isla, and the reluctant assistance of Ewan Douglas- the castle’s quietly infuriating, occasionally grumpy, entirely competent factor and Killranoch’s Provost, who keeps showing up with tea at exactly the right moment- Moira must navigate a village full of suspects, old feuds, and Gaelic lore before the killer decides she’s found out too much.
Killrannoch Keep has been keeping secrets for seven hundred years.
It picked the right woman to finally give them to.
Highlands & Homicide is the first book in the Killrannoch Keep cozy mystery series- where the fog rolls in fast, the loch knows more than it’s saying, and no inheritance is ever quite what it seems.
Praise for this book
“This is the book I will be pressing into the hands of everyone I know this year. My book club has been looking for a cozy mystery series to replace the one we just finished and I am arriving to next month's meeting with ten copies of this and a very strong recommendation. The discussion questions practically write themselves — inheritance and identity and what we owe to history, alongside a genuinely gripping mystery and some of the most satisfying slow-burn romance I have read in years. K.D. Brinegar writes with warmth, humor, and real emotional intelligence. This is the start of something very special. I am already pre-ordering Book 2.”