The Blue Hackle (Jean Fairbairn/Alasdair Cameron Mystery)

Alasdair Cameron and Fergus MacDonald were childhood friends. Their fathers? caps carried a blue hackle, the badge-feather of a distinguished Scottish regiment. Now the feather in Fergie?s cap is the decaying Dunasheen Estate on the Isle of Skye. His desperate schemes to save his home depend on a collection of historic artifacts and a handful of paying guests who expect a traditional Scottish New Year celebration. For Jean and Alasdair, the bells of the new year are also wedding bells -- their rings are ready, their guests are invited, and the Gothic folly of Fergie?s chapel is waiting. Then a guest is found murdered, lying in blood that?s thicker than seawater.