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A workplace accident. A five-year cover-up. A detective who refuses to accept convenient lies.
When forestry worker Duncan MacKay is crushed beneath a falling tree in the Scottish Highlands, it looks like a tragic workplace accident—until pathologist Dr Fiona Campbell notices the cut in his safety harness is too clean, too deliberate.
Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Lynch recognises the signs of murder staged as misfortune. Duncan had been investigating safety violations, documenting discrepancies that threatened to expose someone. Within days, Sarah uncovers a darker secret: another worker died five years ago under eerily similar circumstances, and the official investigation was built on lies.
As Sarah follows the evidence through falsified records and deleted files, she discovers a whistleblower who paid with his life for exposing fraud'''and a killer who's spent years perfecting the art of covering up murder as an accident.
But in the close-knit forestry community, asking difficult questions makes enemies. And someone who's already killed twice won't hesitate to silence a detective who's getting too close to the truth.
From the author of THE WHISKY GRAVE comes another atmospheric Highland mystery where the landscape keeps secrets and murder hides behind respectability.
Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Val McDermid, and atmospheric British crime thrillers.
Genre: Mystery
When forestry worker Duncan MacKay is crushed beneath a falling tree in the Scottish Highlands, it looks like a tragic workplace accident—until pathologist Dr Fiona Campbell notices the cut in his safety harness is too clean, too deliberate.
Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Lynch recognises the signs of murder staged as misfortune. Duncan had been investigating safety violations, documenting discrepancies that threatened to expose someone. Within days, Sarah uncovers a darker secret: another worker died five years ago under eerily similar circumstances, and the official investigation was built on lies.
As Sarah follows the evidence through falsified records and deleted files, she discovers a whistleblower who paid with his life for exposing fraud'''and a killer who's spent years perfecting the art of covering up murder as an accident.
But in the close-knit forestry community, asking difficult questions makes enemies. And someone who's already killed twice won't hesitate to silence a detective who's getting too close to the truth.
From the author of THE WHISKY GRAVE comes another atmospheric Highland mystery where the landscape keeps secrets and murder hides behind respectability.
Perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves, Val McDermid, and atmospheric British crime thrillers.
Genre: Mystery
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