Mixologist Pepper Revelle is excited about the latest Bohemia Bartenders gig, but sheโs even more thrilled about where it isโScotland! She and fellow bartender Neil are finally a thing, they and their friends (and frenemies) are traveling in style, and making cocktails for an iconoclastic scotch distillerโs big launch is the glitzy garnish.
Bonus: She gets to work with the sizzling hot Scottish celebrity and TV star whoโs the front man for the brandโat least until a shocking incident puts her on alert that thereโs trouble under all that plaid. Could their adorable spokesmanโs stalkers have leveled up to violence?ย
The teamโs job gets thornier than a thistle when they realize the Bartendersโ clients have a lot more enemies than theyโve let on. From the enchanting streets of Edinburgh to the mystical vistas of the Orkney Islands, Pepper finds so many suspects, sheโs starting to wish a stone circle would whisk her back to Bohemia. As tensions mount, who will get kilt next? And can Pepper and her friends figure out the mystery before theyโre burned like a chunk of Scottish peat?
Smoked by Scotch is the eighth book in the Bohemia Bartenders Mysteries, funny whodunits with a dash of romance set in a convivial collective of cocktail lovers, eccentrics and mixologists. These quasi-cozy culinary comedies contain a hint of heat, a splash of cursing and shots of laughter, served over hand-carved ice.
Lucy Lakestone writes books that offer fun escapes, whether theyโre humorous mysteries, hot romances or storm-chasing adventures. She loves sipping a classic cocktail and chasing tornadoes, but not at the same time. An award-winning author and photographer, sheโs also told stories as a journalist and video producer. She lives with her husband and two crazy dogs on Floridaโs Space Coast, which inspires many of the colorful settings in her books.