This is the 30th in the Pitkirtly Mysteries series.
In the darkness of an icy morning in Pitkirtly, Kyle Prestonfield makes a dreadful discovery. The repercussions spread from the Prestonfields' home in a quiet street in the small town of Pitkirtly, to his work at the Cultural Centre and beyond. Amaryllis interferes, despite some bumbling attempts by Christopher to stop her, and it is only by piecing together several apparently unrelated snippets of information that she sees the whole picture at last. Meanwhile, as the search goes on for a reliable joiner, Mairead McLeod comes to grief on the ice and Kyle's friends and colleagues consume even more doughnuts than usual.
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Cecilia Peartree is the pen name of a writer from Edinburgh. She has dabbled in various genres so far, including science fiction and humour, but she keeps returning to a series of 'cosy' mysteries set in a fictitious small town in Fife.
Currently the first full length novel of the Pitkirtly Mysteries, 'Crime in the Community', and a couple of others in the series, 'A Creative Crime' and 'Secrets of the Ice Palace', are available as free ebooks.
The Quest series is set in the different Britain of the 1950s. The sixth novel in this series, 'Quest for a Father' was published in March 2017.
More recently, Cecilia has also published the 4-book (so far) Max Falconer mystery series and is working on the 3rd Pamela Prendergast mystery. Both series are set mostly in Edinburgh.
As befits a cosy mystery writer, Cecilia Peartree lives in the leafy suburbs with her cats.