The Malt Whisky Murders: Shortlisted for the 2025 Bloody Scotland Debut Prize

When a pair of dead bodies are discovered in their newly-purchased whisky distillery in Campbeltown, Eilidh and her wife, Morag, are plunged headlong a storm of murder, suspicion, intrigue and small town bureaucracy. This is a darkly comic crime debut for fans of Columbo, Midsummer Murders and John Dickson Carr. Whisky is a bloody business . . .When a dilapidated distillery comes up for sale in rural Kintyre, Eilidh and her wife Morag jump at the chance. But their ambition to run the first women-owned whisky distillery in Scotland seems to be scuppered when a grisly, decades-old secret is revealed: two dead bodies have been stuffed into barrels, perfectly preserved in single malt.To add to their woes, a TV crew has just arrived and the townsfolk will not leave them alone. Eilidh becomes obsessed with solving the murders while juggling whisky tastings, ceilidhs, protests and scandals – everything you’d expect from a wee Scottish town imprisoned by its own geography. And no matter how hard you try, the locals will always find out your secrets.

• | Author: Natalie Jayne Clark
• | Publisher: Birlinn General
• | Publication Date: Jun 05, 2025
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781846976780
• | ISBN-10: 1846976782