Murder stalks an English village while Shakespeare experts squabble. Australian folksinger Sheil B. Wright, prime suspect, challenges the hi-tech British police, only to become the killer's next target.

A creepy castle, hidden treasure, and the murders keep coming, after folksinger Sheil B. Wright finds a corpse and intrudes on an isolated weekend group in the Scottish Highlands. While a dunce at deduction, she's well versed in human folly and traumas of the heart. Sheil bumbles through to find the answer to seven deaths, but only after coming terribly close to her own.

Mad bomber at large, bumbling amateur in pursuit Folksinger Sheil B. Wright is sole survivor when a Scottish ritual is fatally disrupted in Australia's green Southwest. Sheil challenges pedantic police inspector Sheryl Holmes, descendant of the great Sherlock, finding clues in an old Scottish lovesong and smutty verse by Robert Burns. Dangerous passions are unleashed, from history's Glencoe Massacre and from the modern trauma of Australia's indigenous people. Then comes the horrendous truth as the killer decides Sheil must die.

Chills and chuckles and baffling murder. Alleged true heir to the British throne, a Black singer is murdered on Australia's wild southern seacliffs. To unmask the killer, bush balladeer Sheil B. Wright bumbles into sleuthing mode. Her interference upsets the investigating officer, an anglophile who defers to a sinister toff from Buckingham Palace. Isolated at a remote hotel, a tense circle of suspects includes one who must take Sheil's life. Ann Morven weaves a thrilling whodunit that keeps readers guessing to the very end.

Chills and chuckles This selection of mystery tales by Ann Morven, diva of the whodunit, varies from the macabre to the magical, yet always a gripping read. Whether it is widowed Marjorie cultivating weeds, Luckless Liz trying to strike it rich or balladeer Sheil B. Wright bumbling along a murder trail, readers are assured of sizzling entertainment.