The Angels' Share: A Novel of Strathbogie (DI Cormac Buchan Investigation)

By Raymond Stone

Huntly, 2008. The banks are falling on the television, and the Deveron valley is quietly proud that its money is in bond: sleeping casks of vintage whisky, tended for forty years by the best liked man in Strathbogie.
When Davie Rait, the last of the old resident excisemen, is found dead of cold at the cairn on his own hill, the town grieves a good death: an old heart, a kent road, his boots on.
A year earlier, an elderly woman in a good coat carried her fear to a police office in Turriff, and was listened to, and her brother died anyway. DS Cormac Buchan and DI Jean Sangster come to Strathbogie carrying that weight, into a case built out of the few things that cannot lie: a haar that lifted when it should have stayed, a flask washed too clean, a sample library kept on suspicion for fifty years, and forty-one casks whose wood is older than their whisky.
The fourth of the Early Years mysteries: love laundered into theft, the door turn passing from teacher to pupil, and a county learning to ask the one question in daylight. Who holds the keys, and who checks him?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJ28FWGV
• ISBN13: 9798172263545
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"