This cosy lets you pretend that you are in Scotland. It is a quick and enjoyable read. Eden Elliot has been nursing her mother who passed away and her husband got jealous of all the attention, so he divorced her.

Eden's best friend buys her a round-trip ticket to Scotland to try to cheer her up. The only thing is that she put the return for six weeks later. She thought about backing out but her friend gave her enough push to get there.

On the flight, she met Vickie Mc Bride who was returning to her childhood home, bringing her two Westie terriers with her. She was quite chatty and Eden really wanted to be alone but Vickie asked her to be her friend and she agreed.

Eden rented a car and found that it is very difficult to rent an automatic so she had to take a stick shift which scared her to death. I learned how to drive on a stick shift and it was not a pleasant experience, the teacher scolded me for being timid all the time. Eden sets out to go to the village that her friend loves, Glenkillen, and has a disaster driving. A handsome Scot stopped to help her. She decided to trust him because he had a very cute Border Collie with him.

Her new friend, Vickie happens to be going to the same town, and a local sheep shearer is found dead. The town suspects Vickie and Eden is determined to prove them wrong.

We learn about local food, some that I would never want to eat and others that sound delicious, and hear a little of the Scottish dialect and sayings.

I liked this cozy very much, it was direct and entertaining. ( )

Scotland, inheritance, writers, romantic, murder, murder-investigation, attempted-murder, law-enforcement, family-business, family-drama, family-dynamics, rural, sheep, wool, cozy-mystery, amateur-sleuth*****

Two women whose lives are in turmoil meet on a plane and become involved in murders. The Highlands of Scotland are beautiful, but the villagers reactions to each of them is far from welcoming. There is danger, suspense, major plot twists, some intriguing red herrings, and a hint of romance (it started with a lesson in driving stick and on the unusual side of the roads). Loved this one and plan to hunt up more in this series!
I bought the audio on sale and Angela Dawe is one of my favorite narrators. ( )

Simply superb. Delightful. ( )

Not reading any more of these, too many stereotype Scots and there were a lot of times where the plot did not move and the atuhor couldn't decide whether it was a cheezy romance or a cozy mystery. I'll take Hamish MacBeth any day over this. ( )

A quick cozy mystery set in Scotland and starring a likable American named Eden, who is "just on holiday" to work on her romance novel. Of course things get off to a rocky start. Vicky, the woman she sat by on a plane was going back to the village to bury her father and happens to be embroiled in a family feud as her father left her everything and her half siblings nothing. As Vicky never really lived in this village (her parents having split when she was younger), the whole town sides with her half siblings (who actually lived in the village), leaving Vicky friendless. Thank god she met Eden on the plane! The two hit it off and are as thick as thieves. But then they discover a body and they're both suspects. Did Vicky do it? Or did her angry half siblings commit the murder and try to pin it on her? Slightly predictable, with some twists and turns, lots of Scottish food and tea, and beautiful scenery. Everything you want out of a nice cozy mystery. This is the first in a series. ( )