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FRIEND & FOE

SHIRLEY MCKAY

From the author of the bestselling Hue & Cry . " Fans of C. J. Sansom and Shona MacLean will find much to admire in this gripping mystery" ( Historical Novel Society). St Andrews, 1583. The young king, James VI, is confined at Falkland Palace, plotting his escape. Dissension rages between Kirk and Crown, the king and his "lord enterprisers," and between the separate factions ...

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HUE & CRY

SHIRLEY MCKAY

Introducing sixteenth-century Scottish lawyer and amateur sleuth Hew Cullan in "a gripping mystery that holds the reader to the very last page" (John Burnside, prize-winning poet and novelist). 1579, St Andrews. A thirteen-year-old boy meets his death on the streets of the university city of St Andrews, and suspicion falls upon one of the regents at the university, Nicholas C...

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1588: A CALENDAR OF CRIME

SHIRLEY MCKAY

Stories starring a sleuthing Scottish lawyer: "McKay's command of plot, place and character makes these 16th century St Andrews-set mysteries a delight." — The Scotsman A grisly murder. A vanishing corpse. A secret romance. A ghostly tale. An innocent accused. Set in the year of the Armada, 1588: A Calendar of Crime brings together five short stories featuring Hew Cullan. From...

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LAMMAS

SHIRLEY MCKAY

A serving girl vanishes in this mystery story set in sixteenth-century Scotland . . . Elspet, a serving girl at the harbor inn, has been told for years by the inn's owner, Walter Bone, that she is ugly and that no man will ever want her. Then, after years of being shut away from the world, she unexpectedly catches the attention of a young laborer and realizes she has been lied ...

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WHITSUNDAY

SHIRLEY MCKAY

A short story in the historical mystery series featuring a sleuthing lawyer in sixteenth-century St. Andrews, Scotland. When a regent of St. Salvator's appears to lose his wits, it falls to physician Giles Locke and lawyer Hew Cullan to discern the cause—and to defend the college from the King's commissioners—in this darkly comic mystery tale in the acclaimed series set in sixt...

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CANDLEMAS

SHIRLEY MCKAY

A candlemaker's life is extinguished in this short story of murder and intrigue featuring the sixteenth-century Scottish lawyer Hew Cullan. On Candlemas eve, an apprentice candle maker finds his master, John Blair, dead in his workshop, and the evidence points to the surgeon Sam Sturrock. Lawyer Hew Cullan finds himself, together with his friend, the physician Giles Locke, draw...

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QUEEN & COUNTRY

SHIRLEY MCKAY

A suspenseful novel of sixteenth-century Scotland from a Dagger Award finalist: "A richly imagined tale, very well researched." — Historical Novel Society 1587: Three years after his enforced departure to London, lawyer Hew Cullen is reconciled with King James VI and recalled to Scotland. He elopes to St Andrews with a young Englishwoman. But the death of Mary, Queen of Scots h...

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TIME & TIDE

SHIRLEY MCKAY

A shipwreck brings excitement—and tragedy—to a sixteenth-century town, and a reluctant lawyer is drawn into the mystery behind it . . . In the swell of a storm, a ship is wrecked in Scotland's St Andrews harbor. A young Flemish sailor, the last man aboard, collapses and dies at the inn. The cargo of the ship appears a welcome windfall—but soon brings devastation to the town as ...

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FATE & FORTUNE

SHIRLEY MCKAY

In the sixteenth century, a girl is found dead on the beach at St Andrews, Scotland, and a young scholar of the law must play sleuth. 1581: Young St Andrews academic Hew Cullan is unhappy with his life and disillusioned with the law. After his father's death he is invited by the advocate Richard Cunningham to complete his legal education in Edinburgh as Richard's pupil at the b...

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