Peggy Winn owns a Scottish imports store called ScotShop in the fictional small town of Hamelin, Vermont, and take regular buying trips to Scotland for stock.
Walking around the highland village of Pitlochry, she stumbles upon a tiny shop she'd never seen before and buys a beautiful antique handwoven shawl. When she wraps the shawl around her, a burly, bearded man in a kilt appears. It doesn't take her long to realize that he was the husband of the woman who wove the shawl in the Fourteenth Century, and that where the shawl goes, so does he.
Back home, she's still adjusting to having a ghost (whom she now calls "Dirk") follow her around when she goes into her shop and finds the dead body of her ex-boyfriend, Mason.
After that, things just get more and more complicated. Dirk proves extremely helpful as she tries to figure out why Mason was there, why her shop has been torn apart, and what the cryptic note found in his pocket means.
Fran Stewart's approach to the connection between ghost and object is unconventional, but it works. It will be interesting to see how Dirk's constant presence in Peggy's everyday life affects her more corporeal relationships, particularly romantic ones. I look forward to reading more about them.
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Walking around the highland village of Pitlochry, she stumbles upon a tiny shop she'd never seen before and buys a beautiful antique handwoven shawl. When she wraps the shawl around her, a burly, bearded man in a kilt appears. It doesn't take her long to realize that he was the husband of the woman who wove the shawl in the Fourteenth Century, and that where the shawl goes, so does he.Back home, she's still adjusting to having a ghost (whom she now calls "Dirk") follow her around when she goes into her shop and finds the dead body of her ex-boyfriend, Mason.
After that, things just get more and more complicated. Dirk proves extremely helpful as she tries to figure out why Mason was there, why her shop has been torn apart, and what the cryptic note found in his pocket means.
Fran Stewart's approach to the connection between ghost and object is unconventional, but it works. It will be interesting to see how Dirk's constant presence in Peggy's everyday life affects her more corporeal relationships, particularly romantic ones. I look forward to reading more about them.
The publisher has generously offered a copy of A Wee Murder in My Shop to one of my readers. Please comment below before midnight on March 9th, including a VALID EMAIL ADDRESS. Entries from the US only, please.
FTC Full Disclosure: Many thanks to the publisher for the review copy of the book.