MURDER AT ARDVEILAN

Dr. Claire MacInnes came to the Scottish Highlands looking for a different kind of veterinary life. She didn't expect to find a murder waiting in a horse stall.

After years of increasingly impersonal practice in America, Claire accepts a twelve-week trial at an independent veterinary surgery in the lochside village of Invermorren. The work is demanding, the locals are watchful, and retiring vet Malcolm Kerr has made it clear that earning his practice will require more than proving she knows her medicine.

Then businessman Douglas Strachan is found dead in a stall at nearby Ardveilan Estate, apparently killed by a horse.

Claire knows one thing the killer didn't.

The mare blamed for Douglas's death has been barefoot for two years.

As police begin looking beyond a tragic stable accident, suspicion settles on people Claire is only beginning to know: a horsewoman with every reason to hate Douglas, an estate manager with access to the crime scene, business partners hiding secrets, and a family fighting to protect Ardveilan's future.

Claire has no intention of becoming an amateur detective. But veterinary knowledge has already placed her at the edge of the investigation-and in a village this small, murder has a way of touching everyone.

To uncover what really happened, Claire will have to learn which details matter, which people can be trusted, and whether Invermorren might be more than the place she came to try for twelve weeks.

Murder at Ardveilan is the first book in The Loch Morren Mysteries, a traditional Scottish cozy mystery series featuring a sharp-eyed veterinarian, a close-knit Highland community, unforgettable animals, and murders solved without graphic violence.