For this week's Can't Wait Wednesday hosted by Tressa at the book blog, Wishful Endings, I'm featuring, Murder On a Scottish Island by Lydia Travers. I have been given an ARC of this book and am currently reading it. The first one was really cute and a lot of fun. This is my cozy mystery between longer reads. Travers has another Scottish series called the Scottish Ladies Detective Agency mysteries and I've read the first one. The ladies made an appearance in book one of the Poppy Proudfoot mystery and I'm thinking they might again in this one. So far I'm liking it a lot!
I hope you've found something you can't wait to read this week. Happy reading ya'll!
Cozy Historical Mysteries
September 8, 2025
Book description courtesy of Goodreads
Scotland, 1924: When Lady Poppy Proudfoot is invited to her friend’s hotel on the Isle of Skye, she is looking forward to a holiday. But all thoughts of relaxing vanish when she discovers the body of a strangled woman in a church.
The police believe the widow’s death was a robbery gone wrong, as a pendant was stolen from the scene. But Poppy is sure it’s murder. Ignoring the police’s warnings to keep her nose out, she enlists her friend Inspector MacKenzie, and her loyal Labrador, Major, to unpick the case.
Poppy suspects one of the hotel’s guests knows more about the murder than they are willing to admit. Could it be Miss Buccleugh, the avid button collector? Or the travelling guru, who conveniently disappeared just after the murder? Or was it Mr Henderson, so desperate for money he was driven to murder?
When Poppy sees the victim’s sapphire pendant on the neck of another guest, she is convinced the killer is targeting widows in the hotel, and luring them in with jewellery. But to prove her theory, she will have to offer herself up as bait. It’s risky, but her only way of catching the killer… Can Poppy con a con-man, and make it out alive? Or will she be the next wealthy widow on the killer’s list?
No comments:
Post a Comment