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Ten strangers are lured to a remote Scottish island at the invitation of a reclusive industrialist.Stranded on Lord Black's wondrous estate, the disparate guests have more in common than they first realize.Accused by a mysterious letter of having committed crimes in their past, one by one they are hunted down. But who is the killer? Will any of them live to find out?

Born and raised in Scotland, Iain McChesney is a writer of classic mysteries and the author of "Murder at Malenfer." His second novel, "Countdown to Death," is a modern re-telling of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None," drawing inspiration from the remote gothic qualities of the Scottish highlands in homage to the classic whodunit. He lives in Vancouver, Canada, with his wife and two children.