A royal castle. A murder. The only witness? A horse.Izzy Paterson prefers horses to humans—and spreadsheets to small talk. By day, she trains horses at a Highland estate. By night, she moonlights as an I.T. consultant with a cybercrime past she'd rather keep quiet.But when a body turns up at Balmoral, the Queen’s summer castle, Izzy and her new friend Craig end up in the wrong place at the wrong time—and suddenly find themselves suspects in a royal murder.

A prize from a princess. Is it worth murder?When Izzy Paterson--horse trainer and computer geek--gets a last-minute entry to the prestigious Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh, she doesn't expect to be tripping over dead bodies. Literally.But in the competitive world of show-jumping, it seems that someone is so determined to win a coveted prize, they'll resort to murder.As the body count rises, suspicions grow exponentially and the show descends into ...

A fatal shooting, a vexing vandal, a Christmas conundrum.It's December 1892 and at her father's first house party in the Scottish Highlands in the days before Christmas, aspiring photographer, Persi (never call her by her real name, Lady Persephone Millicent Merrit) takes a lucky—or perhaps unlucky—photograph just as a rich financier is shot. Accidentally.Or was it?When Persi finds evidence that the shooting was intentional, not a tragic mi...

A Secret Santa—with a secret!Security expert for a British bank by day, horse trainer at night, Izzy Paterson is a multi-tasking, dressage-riding, computer whiz with an addiction to strong coffee and a penchant for CSI on Netflix. So when she's handed a perplexing riddle by the Secret Santa at her office Christmas party, she just can't ignore the mystery.Penned by a modern-day Robin Hood, the anonymous rhyme hints at financial misconduct that could put the ...

Meeting your boyfriend's mother is stressful enough without murder taking centre stageWhen Izzy Paterson—horse trainer, coffee-holic and computer geek—attends a medieval pageant, everyone performs brilliantly—until the star of the show, a Mary Queen of Scots re-enactor, drops dead.With her boyfriend’s mother, Violet MacDonald, cast as the prime suspect, the police think they’ve silenced the critics and aren’t auditioning anyone else for the part of villain. ...

A daring theft. A reputation in tatters. And a troubling trifle.Scottish horse trainer Izzy Paterson has double trouble to deal with. An audacious financial crime, and a perplexing equine enigma. The victims of both mysteries—the unconventional local vicar and a talented teenager—are innocents caught out by the machinations of dastardly villains.It's a race against time—and some wily criminals—as Izzy tries to track down the perpetrators before the reverend'...

A prize from a princess. Is it worth murder?When Izzy Paterson—horse trainer and computer geek—gets a last-minute entry to the prestigious Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh, she doesn't expect to be tripping over dead bodies. Literally.But in the competitive world of show-jumping, it seems that someone is so determined to win a coveted prize, they'll resort to murder.As the body count rises, suspicions grow exponentially and the show descends into ch...

A royal castle. A murder. Only one witness: a horseHorse trainer by day, I.T. consultant by night, Izzy Paterson is a classic nerd who’s better with animals than humans. But when a body is found at the feet of a prize stallion in the queen’s summer castle in the Scottish Highlands, Izzy—and her new friend Craig—are in the wrong place at the wrong time, becoming suspects in the murder.In the race to clear their names, Izzy has to employ all her horse whisper...

A Secret Santa—with a secret!Security expert for a British bank by day, horse trainer at night, Izzy Paterson is a multi-tasking, dressage-riding, computer whiz with an addiction to strong coffee and a penchant for CSI on Netflix. So when she's handed a perplexing riddle by the Secret Santa at her office Christmas party, she just can't ignore the mystery.Penned by a modern-day Robin Hood, the anonymous rhyme hints at financial misconduct that could put the ...