After 93 well-lived years, Violet MacAskill is throwing a decluttering party at her Scottish Baronial manor. When the director of a local museum dies and a tin of rat poison goes missing, Janet Marsh and Christine Robertson of Yon Bonnie Books realize that the party is over, and the race is on to find the murderer. But in this fifth outing (after Heather and Homicide), where do they begin? Are there clues in the "Shocking Stockings" exhibit at the museum, or the antique scrapbook pasted full of trivia about arsenic? Or does the answer lie closer to home—is one of Violet's friends truly toxic?

"MacRae revels in clever wordplay and banter…. What's not to like about a knitting competition, Scottish scenery, books, and scones?"—Publishers Weekly