A Brace of Skeet (Keith Calder Book 14)

This time, it’s Calder’s daughter’s turn to tell the tale, as she takes her father’s place as resident gunsmith—and amateur sleuth—of Newton Lauder.

The last thing Deborah Calder thought she’d be consulted on during her parent’s vacation was a murder. Yet they’d hardly left when Inspector Munro called her to the Pentland Gun Club, where the steward’s body had been found lying by a skeet trap. Tullos wasn’t a popular man, but his grouchy moods were hardly a cause for murder.

Finding the cause becomes Deborah’s mission, as she is suddenly appointed the expert forensic witness—and, with her father’s curiosity, finds herself launching an investigation of her own.

Praise for Gerald Hammond’s Keith Calder series:

On Stray Shot:

“Simon’s diffident manner makes an engaging contrast to Keith’s brio. Complications abound . . . this outing has a rollicking air more Dallas than Edinburgh—it’s fast-moving, sometimes broadly funny, and one of Hammond’s best.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“Hammond still works wonders with a few square miles of farm country, and his enviable gift for bringing antique gun lore to life continues to fascinate.”
—Booklist

And on Adverse Report:

“This delightful mystery . . . introduces a bemused Englishman to the colorful residents of the Scottish countryside. . . . Hammond deftly builds his characters using a light touch; his firm sense of place and time unveil Scotland through the eyes of a newcomer.”
—Publishers Weekly

“The oddball likability of Scottish rural eccentrics has been a constant in the Keith Calder mysteries, producing a combination of quirky charm and unsentimental warmth. . . . Finding a meticulously plotted mystery hidden beneath the local color should surprise no one familiar with the previous Calder tales.”
—Booklist

Gerald Hammond’s Keith Calder mysteries, of which this is the thirteenth, include Stray Shot and Adverse Report. Hammond lives in Scotland.