Susan McDuffie

A Muirteach MacPhee Mystery

1 - A Mass for the Dead (Nov-2006)
2 - The Faerie Hills (Apr-2011)
3 - The Study of Murder (Oct-2013)

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  A Mass for the Dead
  

  • Nov-2006
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  A Muirteach MacPhee Mystery - 1
  

  Scotland 1373: Crispinus, the head of Oronsay Priory, is found dead, strangled and battered, his mouth stuffed with sand, in the middle of the tidal strand separating the holy island of Oronsay from the larger island of Colonsay. The Lord of the Isle...

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  The Faerie Hills
  

  • Apr-2011
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  A Muirteach MacPhee Mystery - 2
  

  Scottish Hebrides, Autumn 1373: The eight year old grandson of the powerful Lord of the Isles vanishes on the windswept island of Colonsay, and rumors fly that he has been spirited away by the faerie. Muirteach MacPhee investigates but he suspects t...

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  The Study of Murder
  

  • Oct-2013
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  A Muirteach MacPhee Mystery - 3
  

  The Study Of Murder pits Scottish sleuth Muirteach MacPhee against a mysterious adversary in medieval Oxford. Muirteach and his wife Mariota accompany the Lord of the Isles' son, Donald, to Oxford. Shortly after their arrival, a winsome tavern maid d...

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  The Watergate
  

  • May-2016
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  Muirteach MacPhee accompanies the Lord of the Isles to meet with King Robert II of Scotland at Urquhart Castle, where the horrifying death of a beautiful woman plunges Muirteach into an even deeper mystery....

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  The Death of a Falcon
  

  • Feb-2018
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  Scotland, 1375: Muirteach MacPhee and his wife Mariota visit Edinburgh Castle, assisting the Lord of the Isles in his negotiations with King Robert II. A trading vessel arrives at the nearby port of Leith from the far away Norse settlement in Greenla...

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  The Suicide Skull
  

  • Sep-2022
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  Scotland, 1396: Euphemia MacPhee lives alone in a witch's cave with her healing herbs and an ancient skull for company. Her reclusive life shatters the day she learns that her four-year-old son, fostered on the Isle of Barra, has mysteriously fallen ...

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  Death on the Rio Chiquito
  

  • Feb-2023
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  Miss Marple meets Tony Hillerman in Death on the Rio ChiquitoNew Mexico, 1943: Emily Schwarz, the Anglo teacher at the isolated Pueblo of San Antonito, discovers the corpse of a nineteen-year-old boy, his blood mingling with the muddy waters of the t...

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Award-Winning Books by Susan McDuffie

The Faerie Hills
2011 New Mexico Book Award -- Historical Fiction