I realise I have slowed down in getting my new books to press, but since the pandemic is over, I have been able to travel more and writing less.

During the last week I have been busy putting together the last few things to get by next book ready for. A Victim inn Victoria is the next (thirteenth) in the Elspeth Duff series. Most of it takes place at the Kennington Victoria in British Columbia, Canada and is the first one that occurs in North America. At the end the action switches to Scotland, however.

Here is the back cover description:

Elspeth Duff, special security advisor to Lord Kennington owner of the Kennington hotel chain, inveigles him into giving her an assignment at the Kennington Victoria hotel on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. She wants to be near her husband when he is to give an address in Vancouver. What appears to be a benign job turns into a case of dual murders involving international delegates to a conference on whaling. Elspeth is injured during one of the deaths, and is suspected of being the perpetrator of the crime. She is restricted by both the police and her infirmity and cannot easily investigate what has really happened. She recruits her cousin, Charles Baillie Shaw, who is also at the conference, to help her snoop out the killer. They make a dangerous team. But the solution is not as apparent as Elspeth might hope.

I’ll let you know when the book is out.