The Rough Collier Author:Pat McIntosh Glaswegian Gil Cunningham makes a welcome return in this authentically detailed historical whodunit. Together with his lovely but intrepid wife, Alys, Gil investigates the murder of an unidentified man unceremoniously laid to rest in a peat bog. When peat cutters discover the body near his mother’s rural estate, they immediately send for G... more »il, the archbishop’s questioner. Though a group of frenzied locals accuse an innocent woman of witchcraft, Gil and Alys dig deeper, uncovering a string of suspicious deaths that stretch back years in time. Trapped in a mine with a cold-blooded killer, Alys extracts the confession that clears an innocent suspect who stands ready to take the blame. McIntosh artfully interweaves intrigue and history in this suspenseful medieval murder tale. « less