Catastrophe ~ A Highland Murder Most Fowl (Scottish Wildcat Tails Book 1)

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Written for all the family for readers aged 7 years to 107 years!

A wildcat moves softly through his Highland world, describing it through feline eyes in exquisite golden detail. Scent is a language of its own. His is an elemental world of rain and snow, of forest, moorland, and mountain. A world of changing seasons and the endless dance of life and death, predator and prey.

Although the wildcat’s home is a world of poetic beauty, it is also one of sudden, terrifying violence where the ultimate predator is mankind. Shot deliberately by a gamekeeper on a shooting estate, the wildcat nearly dies before being rescued by a young couple. After a spell in the vet, he convalesces in their Perthshire cottage, where he learns to love their old bony cat, Haggis, and author Mary.

The hunting moon is barely on the rise when bad news arrives from the solicitors. Mary’s beloved Aunt Edith has died, and the couple heads north to Driechandubh Castle in the Highlands, where odious Aunt Maud, Edith’s envious sister, has ensconced herself in the castle like a cuckoo, under the pretext of nursing Edith. As an apex predator, Catastrophe instinctively sees through Maud’s charade as grieving sister: he can smell her underlying fear and hostility at her niece’s unexpected arrival and hear the falsehood in her voice. Aunt Maud is hiding a terrible secret.

Catastrophe finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue, murder, and adventure that will test our magnificent wildcat sleuth to his limits. Can Catastrophe unravel Aunt Maud’s dastardly plans before it’s too late?