The Faerie Hills - Mcduffie, Susan

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Résumé :
Autumn 1373: The 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, suspecting the boy's disappearance has more to do with the mysterious piece of gold the lad found before he vanished. Mariota Beaton arrives from Islay to aid Muirteach, but she struggles with demons of her own. The island of Colonsay is rife with tales of faerie changelings and the buried bones of an infant found in a nearby cave. Muirteach's investigation brings past grievances and old wounds to light, but can he save the life of the missing boy, or his burgeoning relationship with Mariota? This paperback edition includes a bonus novelette. In The Watergate Muirteach MacPhee accompanies the Lord of the Isles to meet with King Robert II at Urquhart Castle where the death of a beautiful woman draws Muirteach into an even deeper mystery.

Biographie:
A fan of historical fiction since childhood, Susan McDuffie spent such vast amounts of time reading stories set in the past that she wondered if she had mistakenly been born in the wrong century. As an adult her discovery that Clorox was not marketed prior to 1922 reconciled her to life in this era. Susan's childhood interest in Scotland was fueled by family stories of the McDuffie clan's ancestral lands on Colonsay and their traditional role as Keeper of the Records for the Lords of the Isles. Although Keeper of the Records may in fact have been a tedious position, it all sounded incredibly mysterious and intriguing to Susan. On her first visit to Scotland she hitchhiked her way through the Hebrides. Her initial visit to Colonsay and the Oronsay Priory ruins planted the seeds for her medieval mysteries. Those seeds have grown into the Muirteach MacPhee mysteries, set in medieval Scotland during the Celtic Lordship of the Isles. The series includes A MASS FOR THE DEAD, THE FAERIE HILLS (2011 New Mexico Book Awards Best Historical Novel) and THE STUDY OF MURDER (New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards Finalist 2014). Paperback editions of the first two Muirteach MacPhee mysteries are forthcoming in spring of 2017, reissued by Liafinn Press. THE DEATH OF A FALCON, Muirteach's next adventure, is scheduled for publication by Bagwyn Books in July 2017. Susan frequently presents at workshops and conferences and regularly reviews historical fiction books for the Historical Novel Society's Historical Novels Review. Susan lives in New Mexico and shares her life with a Native American artist and four unruly cats. She enjoys taking flamenco dance classes in her spare time. Susan loves to hear from readers and can be contacted via Facebook or through her website.