"Booklist" called "A Double Death on the Black Isle," a stunner with lots of action, lots of atmosphere. Now the acclaimed mystery series about a newspaper staff in a 1950s Highlands town continues everything is quiet and quaint until one of their own is murdered.
The third lyrical, evocative, and character-driven entry in A.D. Scott's mystery series set in the 1950s in the Scottish Highlands.
As a decade of change comes to a close, murder hists close to home in a small Scottish town...
On a dark, damp Sunday evening, a man taking a shortcut home sees a hand reaching out in supplication from a bundle of sacks. In an instant he knows something terrifying has happened.
In the Highlands in the late 1950s, much of the local newspaper s success was due to Mrs. Smart, the no-nonsense office manager who kept everything and everyone in line. Her murder leaves her colleagues in shock and the "Highland Gazette "office in chaos. Joanne Ross, a budding reporter and shamefully separated mother, assumes Mrs. Smart s duties, but an intriguing stranger provides a distraction not only from the job and the investigation but from everything Joanne believes in.
"Beneath the Abbey Wall "brilliantly evokes a place still torn between the safety of the past and the uncertainty of the future, when rock n roll and television invaded homes, and a change in attitudes still came slowly for many. As the staff of the "Highland Gazette "probes the crime, they uncover secrets deeply rooted in the past, and their friend s murder becomes the perfect fodder for strife and division in the town and between her colleagues."