I just checked amazon.com and A Mater of Murder, my newest book, is available now.

Here’s a teaser:

Author’s Introduction

As the creator of the Elspeth Duff mystery series and feeling a bond to its main character, I often wondered what could have happened to Elspeth if Malcolm Buchanan had not been murdered at Cambridge. She initially had contemplated a career as a solicitor in her father’s law firm in Pitlochry, Perthshire, but Malcolm’s murder changed all that. A Matter of Murder is a spin off from the main Elspeth Duff series and explores the life of a young woman solicitor in the Highlands of Scotland.

Readers of the Elspeth Duff mystery series will recognise several characters from that series. Elspeth is obliquely mentioned several times. The main character, Portia MacRoberts, first mentioned in A Presumption in Perthshire, takes the role Elspeth might have followed if she had returned to Scotland rather than pursuing life elsewhere. Paige MacDonald from A Legacy on Lewis, acts as Portia’s mentor in A Matter of Murder. Elspeth’s father and Maxwell Douglas-Forbes, QC, are minor characters, although they are significant players in several of the Elspeth Duff mysteries. I used the device of reusing characters to connect A Matter of Murder to earlier books of mine.

I hope you enjoy this diversion.