{"product_id":"scot-mist-9780727890337","title":"Scot Mist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDespite efforts to create a safe environment to see out the pandemic, the residents of the Last Ditch Motel face more dangers than they imagined possible in this hilarious yet claustrophobic mystery.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarch 2020 and Operation Cocker is a go! The owners of the Last Ditch Motel, with a little help from their friend Lexy Campbell, are preparing to support one another through the oncoming lockdown, offering the motel's spare rooms to a select few from the local area in need of sanctuary. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile the newbies are settling in, an ambiguous banner appears demanding one of them return home. But who is it for? Lexy and her friends put a plan into action to ward off the perpetrator, but the very next night, a resident disappears and a message scrawled in human blood is found. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs California shuts down, the Last Ditchers make another gruesome discovery. They tried to create a haven but now it seems as if everyone's in danger. Is the motel under attack from someone on the outside? Scary as that is, the alternative is worse by far.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn and raised in West Lothian, \u003cb\u003eCatriona McPherso\u003c\/b\u003en left Edinburgh University with a PhD in Linguistics and worked in academia, as well as banking and public libraries, before taking up full-time writing in 2001. For the last ten years she has lived in Northern California with frequent visits home. In 2020 she was shortlisted for a third Mary Higgins Clark Award, for \u003ci\u003eStrangers at the Gate\u003c\/i\u003e, and won her second Left Coast Crime Lefty Award in the Best Humorous Mystery category for the Last Ditch series, this time for \u003ci\u003eScot and Soda\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Severn House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50452431012114,"sku":"9780727890337","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3b82b21b-0021-461a-a9c9-ee01f48c2738.jpg?v=1729811778","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/scot-mist-9780727890337","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}