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Q: Who drew all the pies? A: Mark did. The Edinburgh Sketcher
Lexy sails again! Snugly ensconsed in her house boat in the Last Ditch Slough, Lexy has no plans ever to mess with corpses, cops or cases again. She's aiming to work hard, avoid her mum's phone calls and maybe meet a nice guy. But at her Halloween cum Housewarmer, the only single man who turns up is too old for her, too strangely dressed, and - oh yes - too dead.
Donna Weaver has put everything into The Breakers. Now it waits for the first guests to arrive. But as they roll up – these couples and cousins, all in their forties – each one discovers they’ve been here before. Sasha had his sixteenth birthday at scruffy old Knockbreak House, as it was. Peach started a life of boozing there. Rosalie and Paul started the life they still share. Buck and Jennifer had one night they barely remember. They’re the lucky ones . . .
Wedding bells are set to ring as Dandy Gilver, family in tow, arrives in windswept Wester Ross on Valentine’s Day. They’ve come to Mallory, a less-than-suitable bride-to-be for Dandy’s son Donald. But soon there's a body under the snow in the knot garden, and love is the last thing on Dandy’s mind . . .