Veterinarian Jenny Little has just settled into the Scottish coastal village of North Hubbington when the popular whisky distiller Neil Campbell is suddenly found dead in the pub. His cat Haggis is one of Jenny's small patients, and before she knows it, the vet is headlong into a full-blown murder investigation. Together with the eccentric pensioner Dagobert 'Dag' Harriman, she uncovers Campbell's secrets and stumbles upon old feuds and murky dealings amidst oak barrels and heather. But the closer the unlikely duo gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes for Jenny and Dag – because the killer is still capable of anything... Biography: Christian Humberg, born in 1976, grew up in the Eifel region and studied book and literary studies in Mainz. Since the late 1990s, he has worked as a literary translator and freelance author of novels and non-fiction books, which have themselves been translated into several languages. He has published numerous titles in various genres, including fantasy, science fiction, and other subgenres of speculative fiction. Christian Humberg is an editor and columnist for several speculative fiction magazines, including Geek!, and teaches creative writing to aspiring authors on behalf of various cultural institutions.