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A man lies under the tawny earth, hands still clutching the knife that killed him. Thorfinn Sigurdarson, Earl of all Orkney and Caithness, has made a mistake, and he won't let himself forget it. Now rumours have started in the Norse lands that he might be getting a second chance - but should he take it, when it means that dead men are walking?

A red dawn breaks over winter woodland, where two men stand, pistols drawn. Political strife has come to peaceful Ballater, bringing death in its wake, and Hippolyta Napier is once more drawn to find out more - even when her own life is in danger. This is the third in the Hippolyta Napier series set in 19th. century Scotland.

Eliot, a bad-tempered merchant, feeling under the weather. Catriona, an archaeologist leading a student dig, when she finds something unexpected. Tom, a microbiologist, investigating a new disease with a stigma. Together, their knowledge could save thousands of lives - but someone does not want them to ...

The dreadful day is approaching for the Napiers in Ballater: Hippolyta Napier's mother is coming to stay. But Mrs. Fettes is not just in Aberdeenshire to visit her youngest daughter: she has other reasons, and one will draw the whole family in, with deadly results.

The recently married Hippolyta Napier is making a new life amidst Aberdeenshire's dark woods and pure, flowing waters. But suspicion, intrigue and death await at her new home, and the forces of nature take few prisoners.

Far from the Blitz, Marian Cowie is reluctantly resting in rural Aberdeenshire when a German 'plane crashes nearby. An airman goes missing, and bones are revealed. Marian is sure she could solve the mystery if only the villagers would stop telling her useless stories - but when the crisis comes, Marian finds the stories may have a use after all.

Rural Fife, 1804: Scoggie Castle is cold and grim, but a refuge to the disinherited Charles Murray. Then a series of mysterious deaths shakes family and servants alike, and splits the local village in two. Murray is thrown once more into the midst of murder, but who has the answer in this dark rural landscape - the pig-lovers or the pig-haters?

1802. An ancient Scottish university is wracked by murder. A vindictive professor, an uncouth student, and a man seeking ministry lie dead, but who wanted to kill them? Charles Murray, a student with enough problems of his own, is drawn into the mystery, where neither innocuous accidents nor good friends are all they seem.

Edinburgh 1810: Charles Murray of Letho, a young gentleman of means, is in much demand: a rich widow, an old friend, and new military acquaintances all need his help. But when Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville, sends him an invitation, vanity and curiosity force him to accept - and straightaway he has to deal with murder.

Lt. George Murray needs his brother Charles' help. One of his fellow officers has not heard from his wife in Edinburgh for several weeks, and he's worried. George would go himself but he is waiting in Belgium for Bonaparte. But what Charles Murray finds out will put both brothers in danger, in more ways than one.

Hippolyta Napier was hoping for good tenants for her new cottage, but the first resident is already dead. Who was he? Why was he there? And will the disappearance of a fitness instructor and the strange activities of a new bride offer any clue to the mystery?