No good deed goes unpunished in the Whisky Business cozy mystery series as distillery owner Abigail Logan uncovers dark secrets—and murder—at a local charity.
Photojournalist Abi Logan is finally ready to put her hectic career on hold and set down roots in the heart of the Scottish countryside. Studying the business and art of distilling whisky at Abbey Glen and volunteering at the Shepherd’s Rest women’s shelter in her spare time seem a surefire way to find the peace and stability she craves. It’s also the logical way to take her mind off her personal life. Abi’s business partner, Grant MacEwan, is facing a career-threatening disability, and as much as Abi longs to be there for him, he seems to prefer the company of a rival.
But as Abi becomes more involved with Shepherd’s Rest, she discovers that their refuge is elusive. When the shelter is rocked by a murder/suicide, Abi is outraged by the police’s lack of attention to these already marginalized women. Increasingly confident in her own skills as an investigator, Abi steps in to find out what the police will not: who left one young woman dead and another missing. But when more deadly deeds come to light, Abi must race to unravel the connections between the shelter’s benefactors and the women they have pledged to protect—and expose the killer before he strikes again.
Melinda Mullet’s delightful Whisky Business mysteries can be read together or separately. Enjoy responsibly.
Who would have thought that sheep and whisky could be so dangerous! Well if you live in Melinda Mullet's world then, yep, they can be, leading to a cracking story that pulls very few punches!
We open with the new doctor going to visit Grant, one of the owners of the Abbey Glen distillery, and he has the news that no whisky connoisseur wants to hear, namely that the fallout from the previous book has left Grant with no sense of smell or taste! Now Abi (the other distillery owner) and Cam need to find a way of getting him back to work in a capacity that doesn't involve taste, so a limited run with Grant doing the leg work of getting bottling done (in custom made earthenware flasks), meanwhile Abi is learning the ropes (by doing a course in Edinburgh) and getting involved in a women's refuge.
It is this latter thing that causes the problems for Abi when one of the women ends up dead and another goes missing! Now the refuge is under the watchful eye of the Police, whilst one of the board members is trying to sell the property and send all the women to a unsuitable other property, with the police being stonewalled by members of the board and members of the refuge Abi steps up determined to find the missing woman if nothing else!
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