The Piper (Ian Rutledge mystery) by Charles todd

[Beth]

On amazon.ca for $2.99 (CDN)

Before the Great War, Hamish is farmer in the Scottish Highlands, living in a small house on the hillside and caring for a flock of sheep he inherited from his grandmother. When one spring evening he hears a faint cry ringing across the glen, Hamish sets out in the dark to find the source. Near the edge of the loch he spots a young boy laying wounded, a piper’s bag beside him. Hamish brings the piper to his home to stay the night and tends to his head wound, but by the time Hamish wakes the boy has fled. He tracks the footsteps in pursuit of the injured lad and finds him again collapsed in the grasses—now dead.

[Judith]

This sounds interesting, I'll try to get it from the library

[Beth]

It is a different take on ian Rutledge because is before the war and also the focus seems
To be on hamish.