Inheriting the Skipper's House from her late aunt Deirdre MacPhail, a famed Scottish writer, looks like the solution to all Elspeth Laird's financial problems -- but this inheritance comes with a dark legacy.

New to Sulla Island's wild beauty and fierce weather, Elspeth soon discovers a community divided by her aunt's memory. Some cherish the tourism Deirdre brought, while others blame her for ruining their traditional way of life. Practical jokes escalate to sinister threats, and a murder confirms Elspeth's worst fears: a killer is among them. With tensions rising and allies scarce, Elspeth must navigate a web of secrets and old grudges.

As legend says, the Skipper's House brings doom to its owners. Elspeth must unravel the truth before she becomes the next victim of Sulla Island's deadly legacy.

Raye Anderson is a Scots Canadian who spent many years running theatre schools and presenting creative arts programmes for arts organizations, notably at the Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg. She now calls Manitoba's Interlake home, where she is part of a thriving arts community. She has published four books in the Roxanne Calloway Mystery series: And We Shall Have Snow (shortlisted for the 2021 CWC Best Crime First Novel and the 2021 WILLA Literary Award for Original Softcover Fiction), And Then Is Heard No More, Down Came the Rain, and Sing a Song of Summer as well as her new mystery book The Dead Shall Inherit. Her work has taken her across Canada, from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast, and as far north as Churchill and Yellowknife, as well as to the West Indies and her native Scotland.

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