Tartans & Treachery: A Killrannoch Keep Cozy Mystery

She solved a murder. Now someone’s stolen her notes.

Moira Sinclair came to Killrannoch Keep to catalog a castle. She stayed — for reasons that include a seven-hundred-year-old inheritance, a village that has decided to keep her, and a quietly compelling castle factor who makes very strong tea. She did not stay to solve another murder.

And yet.

When Killrannoch hosts its annual Clan Heritage Week, twelve clans descend on the Keep with their tartans, their histories, and their grievances. Moira is curating the textile exhibit — a job that suits her cataloguer’s eye perfectly, right up until she notices that two supposedly authenticated clan tartans share a sett pattern they have absolutely no business sharing. A UV lamp confirms what the documentation doesn’t: someone has submitted a modern forgery as a centuries-old original.

Before she can tell anyone what she’s found, her notes go missing from a locked room.

The village of Killrannoch is full of suspects again: a smug historian with significant announcements planned, a wealthy clan descendant with a family name to protect, a charming textile broker who makes everyone check their pockets, a curator with a long-running grudge, and an event organizer nobody notices until she’s already handled everything. One of them knows what Moira found. And at least one of them is willing to do considerably more than steal a notepad to keep it buried.

Good thing Moira has photographs.

With Isla working her sources across the village, Ewan Douglas — Killrannoch’s Provost, castle factor, and the man she kissed on a loch path six weeks ago — providing backup she didn’t ask for and definitely needed, and a visiting relative who arrives with her own opinions about everything, Moira is back in the middle of a Highland mystery whether she planned to be or not.

The tartans are beautiful. The secrets are ugly. And the killer is standing right in front of her.