When proud working Sprocker, Mutley, finds a dead body on his estate, he and his best friend, Kate, vow to sniff out who was responsible.
But there are secrets being kept and Kate is having disturbing visions. Are her 'clouds' really premonitions that threaten their very way of life at the castle?
As accidents and more deaths follow, Mutley and Kate try to piece together the growing piles of seemingly unrelated evidence, all while overseeing a never-ending stream of guests, weddings and shooting parties.
Told from Mutley's perspective, this whimsical whodunnit brings the reader right into the heart of the action on a rural estate in the Scottish Borders.