Born and raised in West Lothian, Catriona McPherson left Edinburgh University with a PhD in Linguistics and worked in academia, as well as banking and public libraries, before taking up full-time writing in 2001. For the last ten years she has lived in Northern California with frequent visits home. In 2020 she was shortlisted for a third Mary Higgins Clark Award, for Strangers at the Gate, and won her second Left Coast Crime Lefty Award in the Best Humorous Mystery category for the Last Ditch series, this time for Scot and Soda.
Plenty of suspects and mordant humor against a background of pandemic paranoia * <b>Kirkus Reviews</b> * The banter among the various characters will draw Janet Evanonvich fans to this engaging, not-quite-a-locked-room mystery * <b>Booklist</b> * McPherson's witty third Last Ditch mystery has a line on every page to provoke a smile. Anyone who appreciates a good mystery told with nimble, sure-footed humor will have a ball * <b>Publishers Weekly</b> on <b>Scot on the Rocks</b> * Lexy's unfamiliarity with Americanisms and the geography of her adopted country add humor, and the story is enhanced by its large cast of eccentric characters with their close family-like relationships * <b>Booklist</b> on <b>Scot on the Rocks</b> * Hilarious . A compendium of unusual characters and odd circumstances guaranteed to make you laugh out loud * <b>Kirkus Reviews</b> on <b>Scot on the Rocks</b> * A hilarious romp that's dead serious when it comes to the tricky mystery and an unexpected denouement * <b>Kirkus Reviews</b> on <b>Scot and Soda</b> * A laugh-out-loud whodunit on a par with early Janet Evanovich * <b>Library Journal Starred Review</b> of <b>Scot Free</b> *