Product Description
The Woman Who Walked into the Sea
Author: Mark Douglas-Home
Format: Paperback
The daughter who nobody wanted learns the truth about the mother she never knew. A page-turning, heart-breaking mystery 'full of surprises ... this is a classic whodunit' (Scotsman).
Cal McGill is a unique investigator and oceanographer who uses his expertise to locate things - and sometimes people - lost or missing at sea.
His expertise could unravel the haunting mystery of why, twenty-six years ago on a remote Scottish beach, Megan Bates strode out into the cold ocean and let the waves wash her away.
Megan's daughter, Violet Wells, was abandoned as a baby on the steps of a local hospital just hours before the mother she never knew took her own life.
As McGill is drawn into Violet's search for the truth, he encounters a coastal community divided by obsession and grief, and united only by a conviction that its secrets should stay buried...
Praise for The Woman Who Walked into the Sea:
'An always entertaining and gripping mystery ... Infinitely better written than the majority of its competitors' — Herald
'A classic whodunit. A mystery from the school of Ruth Rendell, and I can't imagine anyone who likes those not delighting in this' — Scotsman
'Cal McGill is a triumph ... a wonderfully unique creation' crimefictionlover.com
'Simply intoxicating' — Library Journal
Praise for The Sea Detective:
'Raises the bar for Scottish crime fiction ... elegantly written and compelling' — Scotsman
'Promises to be a fine series of detective novels' — Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month
'Excellent' Literary Review - top five crime books of the year
'A compelling protagonist' — The Times Literary Supplement
About the Author
Mark Douglas-Home is a journalist turned author, who was editor of the Herald and the Sunday Times Scotland. His career in journalism began as a student in South Africa where he edited the newspaper at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. After the apartheid government banned a number of editions of the paper, he was deported from the country. He is married with two children and lives in Edinburgh.
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