Beneath the Abbey Wall (44 page)

Copyright © 2012 by A. D. Scott

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Scott, A. D.

  Beneath the abbey wall : a novel / by A. D. Scott.

       p. cm.

1.  Middle-aged women—Crimes against—Fiction. 2.  Newspaper employees—Fiction. 3.  Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 4.  Secrets—Fiction. 5.  Highlands (Scotland)—Fiction.  I. Title.

  PR9619.4.S35B46 2012

  823'.92—dc22

2012030071

ISBN 978-1-4516-6577-2

ISBN 978-1-4516-6578-9 (ebook)