Western Isles Press
Home of the Scotia MacKinnon Mysteries & the Officer St. Claire Novels
by Sharon Duncan
The Scotia MacKinnon Mysteries
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Book #1. For Friday Harbor P.I. Scotia MacKinnon life is as good s it get until she takes on a new client. Elyse Montenegro has lost a husband, a Berkely civil rights attorney. The police are cluless. Elyse is being stalked. Scotia's search into the past -- aided by IT guru Zelda Jones & Friday Gazette publisher Jared Saperstein -- will uncover a tangled thread of dark secrets stretching from San Francisco bay to a white supremacist nest in the mountains of Idaho.
Book #3. A feral, green-eyed internist whose mother is a Berber tribeswoman. A missing college fund, and a stolen Berber wedding dowry. An MI5 marksman searching for a British agent who disappered in Istanbul. A high profile celebrity island wedding. Add Friday Harbor's primo P.I. Scotia MacKinn and It nerd/events arranger Zelda Jones. Shake well, pour over San Juan Island.
Book #2. San Juan Cnty. Sheriff Nigel Bishop announced today he is abandoning the search for Tina Breckenridge, whose sailboat was found abandoned near Sucia Island . . .
Scotia's client, M. J. Carlyle, doesn' believe his sister's drown was an accident. She built built boats, she crewed on a crab fishing boat out of Dutch Harbor. Something doesn't compute. Scotia takes the case, the cyberthreats begom. and the answers can be found in only one place: the dark waters of Desolation Sound.
Book #4. When Scot opts for 7 days in May at the Hotel dei Fiori on Santa Maria Island, it's for the promise of Italian ciusine, massage, tranquility & wildflowers. The reality at the old Franciscan convent is far different. As the accidents pile up, trapped onthe island with the other spa participants, Scotia is pulled into a life and death struggle between the hotel owners, a poker-play neighbor, and a South American assassin named Serafina.
Book #5. Returning from a sojourn in the Mediterranean, Scotia takes on a notorious cold-case murder file: The State of Washington v. Hazel Gundersen.
The Orcas Island horsewomen was accused, convicted,& sentenced to life imprisonment for the alleged murder of her husband, the philandering Norwegian boat pilot, Capt. Peder Gundersen. All desite the fact that the prosecution was unable to establish that a murder had occured. No body, no eyewitnesses. Multitasking between surviving jurors, old court records, elusive Gundersen DNA to solve the case, Scot must also contend with the Indian Ocean disappearance of the peripatetic Capt. Petrovsky.
The Officer St Claire Novels
Book #1. A male escort known as Black Irish is blackingmailing the Director of the Security Service. An MI 5 informant turns up dead in Tiavistock Square. A mujaidaat is stalking the women who stole her husband. Kate St Claire is the Mi5 Officer who will unravel the dark & tangled threads of politics and revenge on the River Thames . . . from the burned out mews house in Mayfair to the corridors of Interpol and the labryinth of a Moroccan souk . . . to a Romeo solution the Bard could never have imagined.
Book #2. Officer St Claire has returned to London from Devonshire when the G7 and the EU impose a ban on all Russian diamonds. St Claire is summoned back to Thames House to partner with Agent Farraday in a joint op with MI6 that will pull theminto the high tech world of lab produced diamonds. Swiftly paced, with razor-sharp characterization, the action moves from Red Square to the City of St Petersburg, and from Belgravia to the stormy Highlands of Scotland, racing against the clock tto retrieve a female hostage caught up in the scheme to sidestep the ban.