Death on Site — Janet Neel

DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY

If it weren't for John McLeish and Francesca Wilson, on a hiking holiday in the Highlands, veteran mountain climber Alan Fraser might never have survived the 200foot fall from the rock the locals called "The Wall." As it was, Fraser escaped with no more than a bad fright and some nasty bruises. In three weeks he was fit enough to work at Vernon Engineering's big construction site in London, as foreman to a crew that included his best mountain-climbing partner--and rival--and a pair of hulking Irish brothers. But when one of the four fell from an 80-foot scaffolding tower onto a pile of steel pipes, there was nothing Detective Chief Inspector McLeish or anyone else could do to save him....

What McLeish could do was smell murder--and with help from the well-connected Francesca and her irrepressible family, he would sort through a tangle of greed, scandal and unrequited love that reached from Scotland to London to the treacherous peaks of the Himalayas....