Kaitlyn Dunnett: Scone Cold Dead

Scone Cold Dead by Kaitlyn Dunnett

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When her career ended with a knee injury, Scottish dancer Liss MacCrimmon returned home to Moosetookalook, Maine. But though teaching dance to the local children, helping her aunt run the town’s Scottish Emporium and starting a romance with neighbor and former classmate Dan Ruskin has kept her busy, she misses the life of a professional dancer.So she’s delighted when her old Scots company, Strathspey, arrives in her hometown. Liss arranges a reception for the troupe and even bakes her own Scottish cocktail scones. But when the company manager, who’s been making life miserable for the performers, bites into one and dies, Liss knows her batch has been replaced. Someone’s hiding something—and Liss won’t rest till the jig is up!

Kaitlyn Dunnett: Kilt Dead

Kilt Dead by Kaitlyn Dunnett

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As a professional Scottish dancer, Liss MacCrimmon has performed strathsprays and reels, jigs and Highland flings until a knee injury cuts her career short. Returning to her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine, she decides to help her aunt run her Scottish emporium. But when murder rears its ugly head in the idyllic, quiet village, Liss will have to add sleuthing to her repertoire...

Liss hasn't been in Moosetookalook in over ten years, but the quaint little town, nestled in the hilly terrain of western Maine, looks exactly as she remembers it. Only home a day before her aunt takes off on a tour of Scotland, Liss mans the emporium's booth at the annual Western Maine Highland Games. There she gets reacquainted with some old friends and new local characters, including an obnoxious real estate agent and his spoiled girlfriend who insists on ordering a custom-made kilt sewn from a plaid called the Flower of Scotland.

Liss knows a sale is a sale and returns to the emporium that night exhausted yet happy. But her bliss soon turns to dread when she finds the dead body of her aunt's nosy neighbor, Amanda Norris, under a bolt of the Flower of Scotland fabric in the stock room. And if things weren't bad enough, the state police hone in on Liss as the prime suspect.

With the help of Dan Ruskin, a neighbor and former high school classmate, Liss begins her own investigation that uncovers secrets about the residents of Moosetookalook-secrets she wished had stayed buried. Now Liss will have to do some fancy footwork to prove she's innocent while avoiding becoming the killer's next victim...

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