Joanne Ross (4 books in series)

Beneath the Abby Wall (2012)
language
English
author
3.67 of 5 Votes: 3
review 1: Added to both Scotland & Canadian Reading Challenges 2013. The setting is familiar and descriptive Scottish Highlands while a main character is Canadian with plenty of Canadian historic detailing.Absolutely blindsided by this novel. My head was still spinning days after complet...
A Double Death on the Black Isle: A Novel (2011)
language
English
author
3.62 of 5 Votes: 4
review 1: Ok so I bought this in the sale bin at Chapters where I find many good reads. This one was intriguing because it had a good mystery story and was set in my ancestral home of Scotland. The characters are charismatic and idiosyncratic. The setting is used to create mood and suspens...
Beneath the Abbey Wall (2012)
language
English
author
3.67 of 5 Votes: 3
review 1: John McAllister leads a small newspaper staff determined to move the weekly Highland Gazette into the mid-20th century. However, when the business manager, an older lady who holds the paper’s production together, is murdered things threaten to fall apart. It doesn’t help that t...
A Small Death in the Great Glen (2010)
language
English
author
3.43 of 5 Votes: 5
review 1: This is really 2-1/2, because it took awhile to sort out all the characters (even tho' I'd just previously read book 2), because so many surnames are similar. Had to do some flipping back to verify stuff. Biggest complaint is overuse of "Wee Jean." We've figured out she's young, ...