An experienced mountaineer doesn't fall from a ridge he's climbed dozens of times.
Dr Alistair Hendry is found dead at the base of Aonach Eagach, the most exposed ridge on the Scottish mainland. His equipment is intact. The conditions were good. And his climbing partner has vanished.
When Craig Tennant is discovered three days later, hiding in a B&B sixty miles away, DCI Sarah Lynch has a man who ran from a death he claims he didn't cause. But toxicology reveals a drug in Alistair's blood that Craig has no access to — a drug his wife works with every day.
Sarah tracks two suspects in parallel: the partner who was there and fled, and the wife who was a hundred miles away but had the means, the motive, and twenty-six years of reasons. The evidence seesaws between them. One of them killed Alistair Hendry. The mountain was the weapon. Someone else loaded it.
The fifteenth book in the DCI Sarah Lynch Highland mystery series. A standalone investigation set in Glencoe.
Genre: Mystery
Dr Alistair Hendry is found dead at the base of Aonach Eagach, the most exposed ridge on the Scottish mainland. His equipment is intact. The conditions were good. And his climbing partner has vanished.
When Craig Tennant is discovered three days later, hiding in a B&B sixty miles away, DCI Sarah Lynch has a man who ran from a death he claims he didn't cause. But toxicology reveals a drug in Alistair's blood that Craig has no access to — a drug his wife works with every day.
Sarah tracks two suspects in parallel: the partner who was there and fled, and the wife who was a hundred miles away but had the means, the motive, and twenty-six years of reasons. The evidence seesaws between them. One of them killed Alistair Hendry. The mountain was the weapon. Someone else loaded it.
The fifteenth book in the DCI Sarah Lynch Highland mystery series. A standalone investigation set in Glencoe.
Genre: Mystery