num_pages: 311
description: On a remote Scottish island American antique dealer Kate Hamilton sleuths a killing that eerily replicates a murder still unsolved after 200 years.Autumn has come and gone on Scotland's Isle of Rothsay and the locals gather for the Tartan Ball the annual end-of-tourist-season gala. Among the invited guests is American antique dealer Kate Hamilton. Returning to the island where her husband died is brutal but Kate is determined to repair her relationship with her sister-in-law Elenor Spurgeon the proprietor of Rothsay's deluxe country house hotel.Kate has hardly unpacked when a body turns up murdered in an eerie recreation of an infamous unsolved murder two hundred years before. And the only clue to the killer's identity lies in a curiously embellished antique casket. When Bo Duff the gentle handyman who had tried to save Kates husband's life is taken into custody she teams up with vacationing Detective Inspector Tom Mallory to clear Bos name. To accomplish that theyll have to unmask a killer who seems bizarrely fixated on the pastbecause two hundred years is an awfully long time to hold a grudge in A Dream of Death the tantalizing series debut by Connie Berry.
language: English
title: A Dream of Death
publisher: Crooked Lane Books