As per the 2016 Reading Challenge, this was the first book I saw when I went into the Keller Friends of the Library book store.
Synopsis: MacLaren Yarbrough, a Georgia magistrate and co-owner of a feed store/nursery, is off on a trip to Scotland to look for ties to her family. As she leaves her husband teasingly admonishes her to stay away from mysteries and not to look for dead bodies. Of course, she ends up trying to solve a double homicide and in the process finds some of her long lost relatives.
Review: This quirky story does a good job of describing many of the places in Scotland I've actually visited; that made the story more fun to read. The mystery was nicely tangled, although all of the clues were overt. However, the dialog is filled with cliches, making some of the characters quite tedious. Overall, it was an entertaining book. ( )

This is a mystery that starts at one time, then jumps back to the past. It's a technique that can work--like the one and only Murder She Wrote mystery I liked--but only if you give the reader a reason to care, to wonder how and why the character(s) got into the predicament you first see them in.

In this case, it begins with a mystery about coffins delivered to the wrong chapel that nobody apparently ordered, and a body found in one of them, but we don't know who.

Then it jumps back in time to tell us all the details of a tour to Scotland, complete with accents: a Canadian woman who ends every statement with "eh?" and the Scottish characters all find reason to say "fit ye deein'" at least once in every conversation.

The tour is dull, the characters unlikeable, crimes that are eventually uncovered are just ignored at the end, and the mystery that starts the book, the coffins being delivered to the wrong chapel, is solved, but makes no sense. ( )