A body positioned between ancient standing stones. White symbols painted on weathered granite. The staged ritual murder of a Highland crofter.
DCI Sarah Lynch knows this isn't what it appears to be.
When Murdo MacKinnon is found dead on Scotland's remote Ardnamurchan Peninsula, the theatrical staging points to pagan ceremony. But Sarah sees through the misdirection. This is personal. This is local. And in a tight-knit community where an eighty-year boundary dispute has poisoned two families for generations, someone has finally crossed the line from anger into violence.
As November rain washes away evidence and isolation works against the investigation, Sarah must navigate feuds, desperation, and stubbornness to uncover which neighbour killed Murdo—and why two acres of Highland grazing were worth a man's life.
In the Highlands, land is identity. And some will kill to keep it.
Genre: Mystery
DCI Sarah Lynch knows this isn't what it appears to be.
When Murdo MacKinnon is found dead on Scotland's remote Ardnamurchan Peninsula, the theatrical staging points to pagan ceremony. But Sarah sees through the misdirection. This is personal. This is local. And in a tight-knit community where an eighty-year boundary dispute has poisoned two families for generations, someone has finally crossed the line from anger into violence.
As November rain washes away evidence and isolation works against the investigation, Sarah must navigate feuds, desperation, and stubbornness to uncover which neighbour killed Murdo—and why two acres of Highland grazing were worth a man's life.
In the Highlands, land is identity. And some will kill to keep it.
Genre: Mystery
Used availability for Phillip Strang's The Shepherd's Stone