{"product_id":"the-wild-island-a-mystery-9780393331899","title":"The Wild Island: A Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere, Jemima Shore, investigator and TV personality, arrives at Inverness Station for a Highland holiday. The sun is shining. Paradise, she thinks. But at that moment, she hears a voice: \"All this way for a funeral.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins an adventure far removed from Jemima's visions of heather-covered hills, crystal-clear streams, romantic men in kilts, fairy-tale castles....Instead, she is plunged into the strange world of the aristocratic Beauregard family with its tensions, its jealousies, and its violence, in many ways a primitive world dominated by the land and its possessing. The setting is the Wild Island itself, sometimes enchanting, but too often frighteningly remote; the streams, not silvery, but brown and sinister; her holiday home, with its disturbing, sometimes terrifying, influences; the people--the dashing war hero Colonel Henry and his sons, the forthright old priest Father Flanagan, Bridie the family servant, Clementina the wayward heiress...none of them quite what they seem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then there is the specter of the Scottish \"freedom fighters,\" in the shape of the self-styled army of the Red Rose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt all adds up to a brilliantly told story of mystery and intrigue on the Wild Island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFraser, Antonia:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - The acclaimed English biographer \u003cstrong\u003eLady Antonia Fraser\u003c\/strong\u003e is also a talented mystery writer whose \u003cem\u003eQuiet As a Nun\u003c\/em\u003e was filmed for the \u003cem\u003eMystery!\u003c\/em\u003e series on PBS.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50324019478802,"sku":"9780393331899","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ef04ae37-0f5e-4657-a776-ba943deb533e.jpg?v=1727664519","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-wild-island-a-mystery-9780393331899","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}