Deadly Editions

A treasure hunt through Edinburgh gives way to a search for a villain terrorizing the city in the sixth Scottish Bookshop Mystery. Bookseller Delaney Nichols receives a mysterious cloaked visitor one evening at the Cracked Spine Bookshop. He presents to her an even more perplexing note: an invitation to an exclusive treasure hunt hosted by eccentric socialite Shelaigh O’Connor. Delaney is intrigued,but also cautious: Shelaighwhile charming in personhas a reputation for her hijinks as a wealthy young woman in the ’70s. She was even once suspected for the murder of a former boyfriendthough ultimately cleared of all charges. But Delaney is enticed by the grand prize at the end of the treasure hunt: a highly valuable first edition copy of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hydeby Robert Louis Stevenson. The winner is also to receive the contents of Shelaigh’s vast libraryand an unspecified sum of cash. The night after the first meeting of the treasure huntershoweverseveral homes in Edinburgh are robbed in a manner reminiscent of Shelaigh’s old tricks. And when a man connected to Shelaigh is killedsuspicion builds. Except Sheilagh herself has disappeared from her homeseemingly kidnapped by the villain. Terror mounts throughout the city as Delaney attempts to solve the mysterywhile trying to stay out of the killer’s clutches. For sheit seemsis his next target.