Let It Rest

Dunvegan has been in the Carlisle family for four generations. The patriarch is dead. The will is contested. The children have assembled for what the solicitor calls a “structured conversation” and what Rowan calls “a cage match in tweed.”

Vantage is hired to mediate. The brief is civil. The family is not.

And the death that started everything, the old man, in his study, heart failure, doesn’t match what James finds in the medical records.

Some houses hold their secrets in the walls. Dunvegan holds them somewhere else.

“For the ones who read the file twice.”