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Lydia Travers

Death in a Scottish Castle (The Scottish Ladies’ Detective Agency)

By Lydia Travers - Published 2024

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In this latest installment in The Scottish Ladies’ Detective Agency series, independent Maud McIntyre and her lady’s maid turned assistant, Daisy Cameron, ...Read Review

Mystery in the Highlands (The Scottish Ladies’ Detective Agency)

By Lydia Travers - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

In this third installment of The Scottish Ladies Detective Agency series, set in 1911 Scotland, Maud McIntyre and Daisy, her lady’s maid, embark ...Read Review

The Scottish Ladies’ Detective Agency

By Lydia Travers - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Lydia Travers’s title The Scottish Ladies’ Detective Agency echoes that of the best-selling, twenty-five-year series by Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies ...Read Review