The only way for textile preservationist Kath Rutledge’s thirty-ninth birthday to have been worse would have been for it to have been her fortieth birthday instead. Last Wool & Testament: A Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery by Molly MacRae At the end of this post are details on how to enter to win a copy of the book & how to purchase it from Mysterious Galaxy which not only helps an indie bookstore, but helps support KRL!

Then, on the misty night they arrive.As we continue our month of mystery novels with a supernatural twist in honor of Halloween, this week we not only have a review of Molly MacRae’s book Last Wool & Testament: A Haunted Yarn Shop Mystery, but also Molly has done a fun guest post for us–Bringing a Ghost to the Party or An Interview With A Ghost. She and the dog (which she insists on bringing with her) cause problems for the school, the library, and the bookshop even before they get to Inversgail. She lives in the Canadian wilderness, in a cabin she built herself, with only her dog for a companion, and her people skills have developed a few rough-hewn edges. Daphne, who hasn't set foot in Scotland in thirty years, is. Janet Marsh and her business partners at Yon Bonnie Books are looking forward to hosting a gala book signing for her. Known as the icon of ecology, Daphne will spend three months as the author in residence for the Inversgail schools.

Inversgail, on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands, welcomes home native daughter and best-selling environmental writer Daphne Wood. The new mystery in the Highland Bookshop series, bringing together a body outside a pub, a visiting author determined to find the killer, and a murderously good batch of scones. Now Kath, her TGIF pals, and the gloomy ghost, Geneva, must unravel the mystery quickly, or someone else might be left hanging by a thread. But there's also talk of a sniper stalking Blue Plum, and Kath's shop is suspected to be the murderer's hideout. But the reenactment ends in real-life bloodshed when local baker Reva Louise Snapp is shotwith a bullet from a modern-day gun.Kath has her theories about who wanted to end Reva Louise's life. Expert spinners are being gathered, and a businessman has approached Kath about using the second-floor windows of her store for part of a reenactment. But nothing, not even the ghost haunting her shop, prepares her for the mystery that will leave the whole town spinning.It's time for Blue Plum's annual historical festival, and everyoneincluding Kath and her spunky fiber and needlework group, TGIFis getting in on the action. Kath Rutledge is settling in as the owner of the Weaver's Cat, a fiber and fabric shop in Blue Plum, Tennessee.

Last Wool and Testament by Molly MacRae