Description BookFest 2024: First Place Historical Mystery He signed on to map the New World, not solve a cold-blooded homicide. But his dream job just became his worst nightmare… An outcast with no formal education, Angus MacKay’s dream comes true when he sails to the Colonies to assist Mason and Dixon on their groundbreaking expedition. However, the contentious Maryland-Pennsylvania border has seen plenty of turmoil following eighty years of skirmishes pitting neighbors against each other. Tensions reach a boiling point when Angus stumbles over a dead body. When an incompetent sheriff is determined to arrest Angus, the game changes from drawing a line on the ground to defining the line between good and evil. Will he catch the real culprit before it’s too late? Or will it be his head in the noose? From the treacherous crossing of the stormy Atlantic to the wild, untamed wilderness of Colonial Pennsylvania, Death on the Line is a rich, entertaining tale of a moment in American history and a young man’s quest to make something of himself. Book 1 of The MacKay Mysteries, a series of historical murders.
