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Death at a Highland Wedding: A Rip Through Time #4    by Kelley Armstrong Amazon.com order for
Death at a Highland Wedding
by Kelley Armstrong
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Minotaur, 2025 (2025)
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Death at a Highland Wedding follows Disturbing the Dead as the fourth in Kelley Armstrong's Rip Through Time historical fantasy series. In its opening, Armstrong sent modern homicide detective Mallory Atkinson into the body of housemaid Catriona Mitchell in 1869 Edinburgh.

Since that jarring change, she's lived in the home of undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray and his widowed sister Isla. Over time, the number of individuals aware of Mallory's true identity (including Duncan's close friend Edinburgh police detective Hugh McCreadie) have grown. Feelings between her and Duncan have steadily intensified.

As this fourth episode opens, Mallory, Duncan, and Hugh journey to a hunting lodge in the Scottish Highlands for a wedding between McCreadie's younger sister Fiona and Archie Cranston. This despite Hugh's estrangement from his family. Complicating matters further is the presence of Hugh's ex-fiancée Violet Cranston.

The story proceeds with a brutish gamekeeper, wildcat kittens, poachers - and the murder of one of the wedding guests. Of course this leads to an investigation by Mallory, Duncan and Hugh - and extreme danger for Mallory. Secrets are revealed and justice, of sorts, is served.

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