A Scottish Bookshop Mystery. Delaney Nichols, originally of Kansas but settling happily into her new life as a bookseller in Edinburgh, works at The Cracked Spine in the heart of town. Shes recently befriended a few medical school students after they came into the shop to sell some antique medical tomes. But when one of the students friends is found murdered outside in the alley, Delaney takes it upon herself to help bring the murderer to justice. During her investigation, Delaney finds some old scalpels in the bookshops warehouse - she finds out that they belonged to a long-dead doctor, whose story might be connected to the