Catriona McPherson, Author . Carroll & Graf $25 (303p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1608-1
Set in the early 1920s, British author McPherson's refreshing debut introduces the captivating Dandy Gilver, a well-to-do woman caught between Victorian mores and the exhilarating sense of freedom that followed WWI. With her husband at home and...
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Catriona McPherson, Author . Carroll & Graf $25.95 (333p) ISBN 978-0-78671-740-8
Set in 1920s Scotland, McPherson's cunning second mystery to feature well-heeled, ballsy and very funny Dandy Gilver, who debuted in After the Armistice Ball
(2005), takes Dandy to South Queensferry to help her friend Frederica preside over the
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Catriona McPherson. Minotaur, $23.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-65418-4
Agatha Christie meets Upstairs, Downstairs in McPherson's charming fifth interwar whodunit featuring Edinburgh sleuth Dandy Gilver (after 2008's The Winter Ground). One morning the aristocratic detective opens a letter from Walburga Balfour, who...
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Catriona McPherson. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-00737-7
McPherson’s sixth cozy set in 1920s Scotland markedly improves on its predecessor, 2011’s Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains. When Mirren Aitken, a department store heiress, goes missing, Mirren’s mother asks well-to-do sleuth...
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Catriona McPherson. Midnight Ink (www.midnightinkbooks.com), $14.99 trade paper (360p) ISBN 978-0-7387-3677-8
British author McPherson takes a break from her Danny Gilver cozy series (After the Armistice Ball, etc.) with this dark, absorbing, contemporary stand-alone. After her alcoholic mother’s death, 25-year-old Opal Jones returns to gritty Mote Street...
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Catriona McPherson. Minotaur, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-02890-7
The professional becomes personal in Agatha-winner McPherson’s slow-moving seventh 1920s mystery featuring Edinburgh PI Dandy Gilver (after 2012’s Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder). Now one half of the detective agency Gilver and...
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Catriona McPherson. Midnight Ink (www.midnightinkbooks.com), $14.99 trade paper (312p) ISBN 978-0-7387-4045-4
In this improbable tale of suspense from McPherson (As She Left It), heroine Jessica Constable’s chance encounter with a stranger begins a journey that makes her phobia-induced nightmares seem tame by comparison. Constable works at a charity shop in
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Catriona McPherson. Minotaur, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-05397-8
Set in 1929, McPherson’s solid eighth Dandy Gilver mystery (after 2013’s Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses) finds the British PI considering a stay at a medical facility for strength rebuilding purposes after she and other family...
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Catriona McPherson. Midnight Ink (midnightinkbooks.com), $14.99 trade paper (360p) ISBN 978-0-7387-4387-5
Keiko Nishisato, the heroine of this grisly standalone from Edgar-finalist McPherson (The Day She Died), has traveled from Tokyo to Scotland to work toward her doctorate at an Edinburgh university. She has received funding from a mysterious source,...
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Catriona McPherson. Midnight Ink (midnightinkbooks.com), $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7387-4549-7
Civil servant Gloria Harkness, the
narrator of this disturbing standalone from Edgar-finalist McPherson (Come to Harm), receives an unexpected visitor
one rainy night at her secluded Scottish country house: an old primary schoolmate of hers,...
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Catriona McPherson. Midnight Ink, $24.99 (360p) ISBN 978-0-7387-4762-0
In this outstanding standalone from Edgar-finalist McPherson (The Child Garden), Lowell Glen’s house cum bookstore, Lowland Glen Books, in Wigtown, Scotland, becomes a haven first for Jude, a librarian who has run away from her personal problems in...
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Catriona McPherson. Minotaur, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-09098-0
Gothic touches enliven McPherson’s ninth Dandy Gilver mystery set in Scotland (after 2014’s A Deadly Measure
of Brimstone). In 1930, a distressed H. Birchfield of Birchfield & Sons, a fish
distributor, approaches PI Dandy and her fellow...
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Catriona McPherson. Midnight Ink, $24.99 (360p) ISBN 978-0-7387-5216-7
Ali McGovern, the mentally unstable narrator of this unsettling thriller set in Scotland from Edgar-finalist McPherson (Quiet Neighbors), manages to land a well-paying job at Howell Hall, a psychiatric hospital in the Galloway countryside, despite...
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Catriona McPherson. Midnight Ink, $15.99 trade paper (228p) ISBN 978-0-7387-5386-7
Homeless and broke after leaving her cheating American husband, Scottish marriage counselor Lexy Campbell finds her life in a mess, but it’s a delightful mess, which aptly describes this series launch from McPherson (House. Tree. Person.). Lexy...
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Catriona McPherson. Minotaur, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-07000-5
Donna Weaver, the narrator of this eerie standalone from Agatha-winner McPherson (Scot Free), and her mother have spent a lot of money to turn the Breakers, a beautiful old seaside house in Galloway, Scotland, into a fancy bed and breakfast. The...
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Catriona McPherson. Midnight Ink, $15.99 trade paper (312p) ISBN 978-0-7387-5412-3
In McPherson’s imaginative, frightfully funny follow-up to 2018’s Scot Free, marriage counselor Lexy Campbell, a Scot who’s settled in Cuento, Calif., must find out who anchored a man’s dead body to her house boat, Creek House, which is moored in...
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Catriona McPherson. Minotaur, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-07001-2
From Agatha-winner McPherson (Go to My Grave) comes this atmospheric standalone set in Scotland, where Edinburgh attorney Paddy Lamb gets his dream job: a partnership in a small law firm in the quaint town of Simmmerton, along with the free use of a
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Catriona McPherson. Quercus, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-473-68235-1
Agatha-winner McPherson’s exceptional 13th Dandy Gilver mystery (after 2017’s Dandy Gilver and a Spot of Toil and Trouble) puts a stylish spin on the traditional country house murder. In the winter of 1935, Edinburgh PI Dandy and her family travel...
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Catriona McPherson. Mobius, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-473-68238-2
Agatha winner MacPherson’s vivid 14th Dandy Gilver mystery (after 2018’s A Step So Grave) opens in the summer of 1936, when Dandy Gilver and her inquiry agent colleague, Alec Osborne, receive a series of letters from a Scottish minister begging for...
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Catriona McPherson. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9031-3
McPherson’s witty third Last Ditch mystery (after 2019’s Scot and Soda) has a line on every page to provoke a smile. Scottish ex-pat Lexie Campbell, a relationship counselor in Cuento, Calif., tries “not to give advice like ‘dump him,’ because it’s...
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Catriona McPherson. Severn, $28.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5001-0
Set in the outskirts of Glasgow, Scotland, this unsettling psychological thriller from Agatha Award winner McPherson (Strangers at the Gate) focuses on three strangers in their mid-50s—Laura, Martine, and Ivy
—all lonely women who work from home...
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Catriona McPherson. Severn, $28.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9033-7
Set in March 2020, Agatha winner McPherson’s fine fourth Last Ditch mystery (after 2021’s Scot on the Rocks) uses the restrictions and free-floating anxiety of the early Covid period—school closures, toilet paper hoarding, lockdowns—to good and...
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Catriona McPherson. Severn, $29.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-4483-0768-5
A touch of pathos lifts McPherson’s darkly amusing fifth mystery featuring Scottish family therapist Lexy Campbell (after Scot Mist). In November 2020, the permanent residents of the Last Ditch Motel in Cuento, Calif., who have bonded during the...
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