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eBook Category: Mystery/Crime
eBook Description: Deep water.... Jean Fairbairn is off to write a story about the haunted waters of Loch Ness. She has an appointment with American scientist Roger Dempsey, who is using his latest gadgets to try and prove that the legend of the monster, Nessie, is true. Jean's business is checking out legends. Some hold water, some don't, and some are about much more than H2O. But the troubled water she finds at Loch Ness is colder than its snow-melt and darker than its peat-stained depths. Sonar and other remote-sensing tools might find Nessie, but what scientific instrument can plumb the mysteries of death? Troubled, too, are the waters that run between Jean and Detective Inspector Alasdair Cameron. Will another encounter bridge the depths that lie between them? Or will their story end at the hands of a murderer, in the icy water of a loch that never gives up its dead?

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: 2006
Fictionwise Release Date: June 2008

This eBook is part of the following series:

• Lillian Stewart Carl's Fairbairn/Cameron Mystery Series

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Words: 115262
Reading time: 329-461 min.
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"...there's time to savor the complexities of the story and take in the scent and sense of Scotland. The author has a wonderful sense of humor and a gives us a story that moves right along and a heroine who doesn't take herself too seriously."--Diana Vickery, Cozy Library

"Carl creates vivid images of the Scottish scenery and her characters ring true. There is an element of woo-woo involved in figuring out the mystery, but it seems appropriate to the setting. This is a thoroughly enjoyable addition to the series."--Shirley H. Wetzel, Over My Dead Body.com

When Jean Fairbairn picked up the newspaper from her desk and turned to the friends melting into her couch, she felt as though she were picking up a gauntlet and choosing her seconds. "Did you see today's Scotsman?" she asked, and read aloud:

Inverness--American scientist Roger Dempsey arrives at Loch Ness today to launch his Water Horse Expedition. He intends to prove once and for all whether Nessie is an actual animal or merely the sort of beastie one sees on the way home from the pub. "The carvings on the Pitclachie Stone," he says, "are incontrovertible evidence that the ancient Picts were familiar with the race of creatures we now call Loch Ness monsters. They clearly show the creature's head emerging from the water."

Experts at the Museum of Scotland who've studied the Pitclachie Stone say that it's an incomplete class I Pictish carved stone, dating from almost 2000 years ago, and that the symbols are typical of its time period.

The Stone is situated on Pitclachie Farm above Loch Ness, the home of environmental activist Iris Mackintosh. Miss Mackintosh declined an interview, saying only that Dr. Dempsey is not the first amateur scientist to see what he wants to see.

Dempsey dismisses the anonymous letter warning him off the expedition as the work of a crackpot, and will open the Midsummer Monster Madness Festival as scheduled. The Northern Constabulary is making inquiries.

Jean shoved her glasses up the damp bridge of her nose and sent a significant look toward her guests. While she theorized that most married couples grew to resemble each other, this thirty-something couple had probably looked alike from the beginning, their faces sculpted by intelligence, humor, and the refusal to suffer fools gladly. Although who was the fool now--Dempsey, Mackintosh, or Jean herself--remained to be seen.

"And you're away to interview the pair of them?" Michael Campbell-Reid asked. "Nothing like a bit of controversy and a threat or two for increasing the circulation. Yours and the magazine's as well, I reckon."

"Yes, Iris agreed to an interview with no problem, but then, she's never met me. Roger has, and he won't be so eager to please. Neither might the person who sent the anonymous letter to him."

Michael's wife, Rebecca, said, "Good luck," but either her tone added a silent you're going to need it or Jean's strolling paranoia added it in.