THE LAST MAN ON LIST: A Highlands country-house murder mystery

Snow is falling on Blackthorn Lodge, and by morning, someone will be dead.When Detective Chief Inspector Mara Sinclair is summoned back to the remote Scottish estate where her mother once worked as housekeeper, she expects an awkward will reading among a family she barely remembers. What she finds instead is a locked study, a sealed codicil, and seven names written in a dead man's hand the first one already crossed out.Julian Voss believed his heart attack wasn't an accident. He was right. As a blizzard seals every road out of the estate, the guests gathered for his will discover they are trapped with a killer who has waited thirty years to settle a debt none of them knew they owed and who intends to work through that list until it's finished.A poisoned nightcap. A body in a locked library. A photograph hidden for three decades that rewrites everything this family believed about itself. Mara has no jurisdiction, no backup, and no way to call for help until the snow clears only her instincts, a house full of suspects who each have something to hide, and a countdown she cannot stop.Fans of Agatha Christie's isolated-manor classics and the slow-burn tension of John Grisham will recognize the DNA here: a sealed-off setting, a family built on old lies, and a detective racing the clock before the last name on the list is crossed out for good.The Last Man on the List is a gripping, atmospheric whodunit about inheritance, buried scandal, and the debts that outlive the people who owed them. Perfect for readers who love locked-room mysteries, slow-reveal family secrets, and a detective who has to solve the case from the inside, with no way out until it's over.Get your copy today and find out who survives the list. A detective trapped by a blizzard in a remote Scottish lodge must catch a killer working through a dead man's list of seven names before her own turns out to be one of them.