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Welcome to my website!

Hi!  I'm Jo Hiestand.  I write two mystery series that take place in mid-England -- the McLaren Mysteries, and the Peak District Mysteries.  I also write the Cookies & Kilts Mysteries that take place in mid-Missouri.  
I hope you'll see what my website pages offer, and return often for updates on new releases.  Thanks for stopping by!


Books are available for purchase through major online merchants.

Prefer buying your books at a brick-and-mortar shop?  You can purchase books in the Cookies & Kilts Mystery series at Main Street Books--307 S. Main Street, St. Charles, Missouri 63301--in person or online.

Newest Novels in the Series

Crossed Paths prequel

McLaren Mystery

Cookies & Kilts Mystery

Bluegrass band Moorland Grass is on the verge of turning pro and hitting the music world like a cymbal crash. But the death of their fiddler, Dylan Ingram, has thrown a sour note into the band's future as well as thrown the lads' working relationships off-key. Now, one year after the murder, former police detective Michael McLaren is asked to investigate.

As McLaren pokes into the case, he hears about sharp words and flat expectations, and gets an earful of anger—some coming from the band members, some from Dylan's family. And there's that strange black car that attempts to run McLaren off the road...or worse.

The case comes together with help of a piece of music. But the finale nearly decomposes one night in a desperate run across the moor—and threatens to take McLaren along in that fade out.