The Killrannoch Keep Cozy Mystery Series

An unexpected inheritance. A centuries-old Scottish keep. And enough buried secrets to keep one amateur sleuth very busy.

When antiques dealer and archivist Moira Sinclair unexpectedly inherits Killrannoch Keep, she trades her familiar life in America for a crumbling castle on the shores of Loch Ness—and quickly discovers that the Scottish Highlands have a very long memory.

Between hidden passages, disputed inheritances, forgotten journals, ancient legends, tangled family histories, and murders that refuse to stay in the past, Moira's talent for uncovering the truth soon makes her Killrannoch's reluctant resident sleuth. Fortunately, she has a colorful village of friends at her side—and Ewan Douglas, the thoughtful local Provost whose steady presence becomes increasingly difficult to dismiss.

Each mystery uncovers another layer of Killrannoch's history while Moira builds a new life, finds her place within the village, and discovers that some things are worth putting down roots for.

Perfect for readers who love Scottish village mysteries, amateur female sleuths, inherited castles, historical secrets, genealogy puzzles, quirky communities, atmospheric settings, and a gentle slow-burn romance.

Welcome to Killrannoch Keep—where every stone has a story, every family has a secret, and the past is never quite finished with the present.

Start with the prequel novella, Killrannoch Before the Storm, then continue the mystery with Highlands & Homicide.

Killrannoch Before the Storm: A Killrannoch Keep Cozy Mystery

Book 0

KILLRANNOCH BEFORE THE STORM A Killrannoch Keep Cozy Mystery — Book 0

Some inheritances come with a deed. This one came with secrets.

When antiques appraiser Moira Sinclair receives a letter sealed in burgundy wax, she expects a bureaucratic oddity. What she gets instead is a castle.

Killrannoch Keep. Inverness-shire. Scottish Highlands. Forty...

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Highlands & Homicide : A Killranoch Keep Cozy Mystery

Book 1

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...

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Tartans & Treachery: A Killrannoch Keep Cozy Mystery

Book 2

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.

...

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Kilts & Cold Cases: A Killrannoch Keep Cozy Mystery

Book 3

He saw something. He said something. He disappeared.

When renovation work uncovers a sealed journal inside Killrannoch Keep, Moira Sinclair finds herself reading the words of Alexander McRae — a servant who worked these halls in 1896, witnessed a land fraud, documented everything, and was erased from every record the estate holds. When peat...

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Bagpipes & Blackmail: A Killrannoch Keep Cozy Mystery

Book 4

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...

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Wills & Whispered Lies : A Killrannoch Keep Cozy Mystery

When Douglas Grant dies and leaves his estate to a daughter nobody knew he had, the village of Killrannoch doesn’t just inherit a disputed will.

It inherits a secret forty years in the making.

Moira Sinclair — estate archivist, accidental detective, and keeper of a fifteenth-century Highland castle — knows a forged document when she sees one. The...

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Legends & Last Rites: A Killrannoch Keep Cozy Mystery - Book 6

Someone staged a murder to look like a five-hundred-year-old ritual. And it’s working.

When folklore researcher Fiona MacKay is found dead on the loch path — posed with eerie precision according to the ancient Highland rite of An Deireadh Dìleas — Killrannoch doesn’t just grieve. It panics. The legend says the rite has three stations. The...

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A Killrannoch Keep Christmas Special - Book 7: A Killrannoch Keep Cozy Mystery - Special- Book 7

A KILLRANNOCH KEEP CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
One Last Visit to the Highlands

Six cases. Seven hundred years of secrets. One castle she never expected to call home.

Moira Sinclair came to Scotland for an inheritance she didn’t ask for. She stayed for reasons she’s still figuring out. And now, two years and six investigations later, she’s getting married on...

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