Digging Up The Dead

Viv Fraser #3

by V. Clifford, Vicki Clifford

An intelligent, sassy PI - "Eat your heart out Rankin." Viv Fraser, hairdresser, super-sleuth and resident of Scotland’s capital city retreats to a cottage in the country for some well earned R&R. She quickly discovers that walking the dog and staring at rolling pasture makes her tetchy. Enter DI Marcus Marconi (Mac) to tempt her with a case of unexpected bones on an archaeological site. Whilst on the case strange incidents occur; a stone tumbles from the chancel of Inchmaholm priory, their hotel room window is smashed, tyres are slashed and Viv is attacked. Were all of these events linked? And who was the intended victim? One case leads to another and Viv discovers that an unlikely link to her past has reared its menacing head. Back home Viv has become an Auntie. Her glamorous sister Amanda’s life has flipped upside down, and she turns to Viv for help.

201 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 30, 2015

Reviews

[Judy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've now finished the three books in this series, featuring Viv Fraser, a Scottish hairdresser/PhD who works with the police as a hacker among other things, and gets in many scrapes. Great characters, lots of local color, and an interesting writing style that ends the books kind of in the middle of everything. According to V. Clifford's Facebook page, she's working on book 4, thankfully.

[Elisa Rolle · Rating 5 out of 5]

2016 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention: Digging up the Dead by V. Clifford
I enjoyed reading this book. I would have liked to read the others first but I was able to get a handle on the backstory quite easily. Writing style made the story flow nicely.

[G T Prentice · Rating 5 out of 5]

A joy to read and hard to put down.

Another excellent read with details that bring me back to Edinburgh and Scotland. I have read a!l three books now and enjoyed the journey and look forward to the next one.

[Wendy Nunes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Odd ending

I find these fairly entertaining, enjoying the setting a lot. This one, however, ended abruptly with too many loose ends.

[Sunnie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the book but I would have liked more details and background on characters as this is the first book I read by this author. Not great as a stand alone novel. I was a third of the way through the book before I knew if Sal was a man or woman! I thought the ending was strange also.