Smoked by Scotch — Lucy Lakestone

Hijinks in the heather...Mixologist Pepper Revelle is excited about the latest Bohemia Bartenders gig, but she's even more thrilled about where it is—Scotland! She and fellow bartender Neil are finally a thing, they and their friends (and frenemies) are traveling in style, and making cocktails for an iconoclastic scotch distiller's big launch is the glitzy garnish.Bonus: She gets to work with the sizzling hot Scottish celebrity and TV star who's the front man for the brand—at least until a shocking incident puts her on alert that there's trouble under all that plaid. Could their adorable spokesman's stalkers have leveled up to violence? The team's job gets thornier than a thistle when they realize the Bartenders' clients have a lot more enemies than they've let on. From the enchanting streets of Edinburgh to the mystical vistas of the Orkney Islands, Pepper finds so many suspects, she's starting to wish a stone circle would whisk her back to Bohemia. As tensions mount, who will get kilt next? And can Pepper and her friends figure out the mystery before they're burned like a chunk of Scottish peat?Smoked by Scotch is the eighth book in the Bohemia Bartenders Mysteries, funny whodunits with a dash of romance set in a convivial collective of cocktail lovers, eccentrics and mixologists. These quasi-cozy culinary comedies contain a hint of heat, a splash of cursing and shots of laughter, served over hand-carved ice.