Scot in a Trap

About the author

Born and raised in Edinburgh, Catriona McPherson left Edinburgh University with a PhD in Linguistics and worked in academia, as well as banking and public libraries, before taking up full-time writing in 2001. For the last ten years she has lived in Northern California with a black cat and a scientist. In 2020 she has been shortlisted for a third Mary Higgins Clark Award, for Strangers at the Gate, and won a Left Coast Crime 2020 Lefty Award for the Best Humorous Mystery for Scot and Soda.

Summary

The residents of the Last Ditch Motel are celebrating Thanksgiving and the arrival of a baby girl. But as one life enters the Ditch, another leaves it. Menzies Lassiter only just checked in, but instantly checked out. By being shot dead. And counsellor Lexy Campbell appears to be the only one with the means, opportunity and motive to kill him.

Product details

• Authors: Catriona McPherson, McPherson Catriona
• Publisher: Canongate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.2022
• EAN: 9781448307685
• ISBN: 978-1-4483-0768-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 225 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 425 g
• Series: A Last Ditch mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General, Crime & mystery, California, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, Narrative theme: displacement, exile, migration, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives