MURDER IN THE BRAIDS an absolutely gripping Scottish crime mystery (Detective Hunter Wilson Mysteries Book 5) by Val Penny

MURDER IN THE BRAIDS

(Detective Hunter Wilson Mysteries Book 5)

By Val Penny

Publication Date: 4th August 2026
Publisher: Joffe Books
Print Length: 290 Pages
Genre: Scottish Crime Mystery

Two missing bodies. Thirty years apart. One killer who thought they’d buried the truth forever.

Two weeks before Christmas. Two off-duty detectives out running through the wooded Hermitage of Braid on the outskirts of Edinburgh find a man bleeding to death beside the icy Braid Burn.

They race for help but when they come back, the body has gone.

No corpse. No name. Just a pool of blood freezing into the snow.

Detective Hunter Wilson has seen this before. As a boy of fifteen, he and his brother stumbled on a murdered stranger in those same woods. That body vanished too. That case was never solved.

Now the past has clawed its way back to the surface. Someone has spent a lifetime making sure certain victims are never found.

And they’ll kill again to keep the truth buried.

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Val Penny

Val Penny has an Llb degree from the University of Edinburgh and her MSc from Napier University. She has had many jobs including hairdresser, waitress, banker, azalea farmer and lecturer but has not yet achieved either of her childhood dreams of being a ballerina or owning a candy store. 

Until those dreams come true, she has turned her hand to writing poetry, short stories, nonfiction books, and novels. Her novels are published by SpellBound Books Ltd. 

Val is an American author living in SW Scotland. She has two adult daughters of whom she is justly proud and lives with her husband and their cat. 

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