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Fifty-something librarian Shona is a proud former pupil of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls but has a deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which she thinks gives her alma mater a bad name. Impeccably educated and an accomplished martial artist, linguist and musician, Shona is selected by Marcia Blaine herself to travel back in time for a crucial mission involving Macbeth, the weird sisters and a black cat.

Fifty-something Shona McMonagle is a proud former pupil of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, but has a deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which she thinks gives her alma mater a bad name. Impeccably educated and an accomplished martial artist, linguist and musician, Shona is thrilled when selected by Marcia Blaine herself to travel back in time for a one-week mission in 19th-century Russia: to pair up the beautiful, shy, orphaned heiress Lidia Ivanovna with Sasha, a handsome young man of unexplained origins — and all in a gorgeously Tolstoyan setting.

Fifty-something Edinburgh librarian Shona is a proud former pupil of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, but has a deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which she thinks gives her alma mater a bad name. Impeccably educated and an accomplished linguist, mathematician, martial artist, and musician, Shona is selected by Marcia Blaine herself to travel back in time for a crucial mission in Venice.

Intrepid fifty-something librarian Shona McMonagle, erstwhile Marcia Blaine Academy prefect, finds herself in an isolated French mountain village, where she must solve a mystery involving the mayor, the cheesemonger, the soprano Mary Garden, and even Count Dracula himself. Shona has been personally selected by school founder Marcia Blaine to travel back in time for this important mission in fin-de-siècle France – a curiously Gothic setting. But she finds it all very confusing.

ie in der Zeit reisende Bibliothekarin Shona McMonagle findet sich im Frankreich des Fin-de-Siècle wieder. Diesmal verschlägt es sie in das abgelegene Bergdorf San-Soleil, das so tief in einem Tal liegt, dass dort nie die Sonne scheint. Seit einiger Zeit verschwinden hier Menschen in den dunklen Wäldern. Treibt ein Mörder sein Unwesen in dieser Region? Shona beginnt zu ermitteln und dabei stellen sich ihr weitere Fragen.

Unterschätzen Sie niemals eine Bibliothekarin... Shona McMonagle ist auf einer Mission: Die resolute schottische Bibliothekarin hat die ehrenvolle Aufgabe, in der Zeit zurückzureisen und den Lauf der Geschichte zu verändern. Im Moskau des 19. Jahrhunderts soll Shona die schüchterne, aber sehr wohlhabende, Waise Lidia Ivanovna mit Sasha zusammenbringen - einem hinreißenden jungen Mann mit ungeklärter Herkunft. Doch irgendetwas stimmt hier nicht... Denn ständig sterben Menschen auf seltsame Art und Weise.