{"product_id":"the-wild-island-9780553293241","title":"The Wild Island","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis new novel features Jemima Shore  the delightful heroine of Antonia Frasers highly praised first mystery  Quiet as a Nun. Here  Jemima Shore  investigator and TV personality  arrives at Inverness Station for a Highland holiday. The sun is shining. Paradise  she thinks. But at that moment  she hears a voice: \"All this way for a funeral.\" So begins an adventure far removed from Jemimas visions of heather-covered hills  crystal-clear streams  romantic men in kilts  fairy-tale castles....Instead  she is plunged into the strange world of the aristocratic Beauregard family with its tensions  its jealousies  and its violence  in many ways a primitive world dominated by the land and its possessing. The setting is the Wild Island itself  sometimes enchanting  but too often frighteningly remote; the streams  not silvery  but brown and sinister; her holiday home  with its disturbing  sometimes terrifying  influences; the people--the dashing war hero Colonel Henry and his sons  the forthright old priest Father Flanagan  Bridie the family servant  Clementina the wayward heiress...none of them quite what they seem. And then there is the specter of the Scottish \"freedom fighters \" in the shape of the self-styled army of the Red Rose. It all adds up to a brilliantly told story of mystery and intrigue on the Wild Island.  This new novel features Jemima Shore  the delightful heroine of Antonia Frasers highly praised first mystery  Quiet as a Nun. Here  Jemima Shore  investigator and TV personality  arrives at Inverness Station for a Highland holiday. The sun is shining. Paradise  she thinks. But at that moment  she hears a voice: \"All this way for a funeral.\" So begins an adventure far removed from Jemimas visions of heather-covered hills  crystal-clear streams  romantic men in kilts  fairy-tale castles....Instead  she is plunged into the strange world of the aristocratic Beauregard family with its tensions  its jealousies  and its violence  in many ways a primitive world dominated by the land and its possessing. The setting is the Wild Island itself  sometimes enchanting  but too often frighteningly remote; the streams  not silvery  but brown and sinister; her holiday home  with its disturbing  sometimes terrifying  influences; the people--the dashing war hero Colonel Henry and his sons  the forthright old priest Father Flanagan  Bridie the family servant  Clementina the wayward heiress...none of them quite what they seem. And then there is the specter of the Scottish \"freedom fighters \" in the shape of the self-styled army of the Red Rose. It all adds up to a brilliantly told story of mystery and intrigue on the Wild Island.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67960774295605,"sku":"ByrdShop_0553293249","price":36.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780553293241.jpg?v=1794496567","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-wild-island-9780553293241","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}