The Highlands University of Ghostology

There is a university in the Scottish Highlands that does not appear on any prospectus. It keeps its students above ground and its collection thirteen levels below. It is staffed, in part, by the dead.

Coby McTavish took the lectureship because he needed the money. What he found was a filing system for ghosts, a secret order of Tudor gentlemen who have been quietly confiscating souls on the Crown's behalf since the 1530s, and a beheaded queen with a five-hundred-year-old grievance and a use for him.

The Highlands University of Ghostology is a darkly comic ghost mystery series — Tudor history, Scottish weather, spectral bureaucracy, and a retired sleuth whose greatest talent is kneeling down and being courteous to the furious dead.

Set in the world of the Haunted Highlands. New readers can start here. Readers who want the whole story should begin with Elm Brook Manor.

The Highlands University of Ghostology

A Darkly Comic Scottish Ghost Mystery

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Britain is losing its ghosts.

Jane Seymour has vanished from Hampton Court. Earl Beardie has abandoned his eternal card game with the Devil. Tourism is collapsing, the Crown is panicking, and nobody can explain where the dead have gone.

Retired detective Coby McTavish has...

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The Silent Choir

A Darkly Comic Tudor Ghost Mystery
Book #2 from the series: The Highlands University of Ghostology

Forty voices. Not one of them singing.

Coby McTavish has a lectern, a title, and two hundred students who assume he knows what he's doing. What he does not have is an explanation for Thomas Tallis — five centuries dead, composer to four monarchs, survivor of every purge that took everybody else's head — standing in the chorister hall accusing...

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