Mystery author Catriona McPherson returns to Insight with her second novel in the Last Ditch series, featuring Lexy Campbell.

The first Scot Free book won a the Best Humorous Mystery award at Left Coast Crime this year, and McPherson is hard at work on book three.“Scot & Soda” follows Lexy Campbell as she settles into her life on a houseboat moored in the slough at the Last Ditch Motel and tries to build her counseling business. A Halloween party guest turns up dead, and Campbell is on the case.

You can see Catriona McPherson on April 20 at 6:30 p.m. at Face in a Book in El Dorado Hills.