Publisher's Synopsis
Banistre Richard Wade, formerly of the British Security Service MI5, now a partner with Lawrence Granger who sell high-tech, security software worldwide, comes under the control of Frank Nichols, international provider of anything illegal including guns, women, and drugs. Wade's former connections to London's underworld are exploited for mutual profit while compromising evidence of criminal activity keeps Banistre Wade compliant. Fifty million pounds in illegal bribes that thwarts the British Secret Service's plan to compromise Iranian software comes to the attention of SIS/MI6 and they want to recover the money. Banistre and his wife Carol along with the Grangers take a holiday in Scotland and book into Culloden House. There, murder most bizarre takes place and the Inverness police have a puzzle on their hands. Culloden House has four centuries of history brought to it by the people who pass through its doors. Enter the Wades & the Grangers and a young man, Jason Connors, to add to Culloden House's history, mystery, intrigues, plots, revenge, love, and a headache for the American owners, Edmund Guthrie Cunningham and his wife Susan Cunningham. Enjoy your favorite whisky as you read because the author, Diana Gabaldon, is a frequent guest at this romantic hotel and Diana and her husband Doug Watkins are there with the Wades, the Grangers, and Jason Connors for murder most strange and foul in the Culloden House gardens right beside the dedicated and donated bench with Diana Gabaldon's name on it placed there by the Ladies of Lallybroch.
