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The Sea Detective
‘Help me, please help me.’ It was a young woman’s voice, pleading with him. He opened the door, certain this was the biggest mistake of his life, and there she was, a feral creature in dirty clothes, with hollowed cheeks and scabs on her cracked lips. Her closest friend died three years ago, her body fished out of the sea off the Argyll coast, and she believes only Cal can help her find out what happened. This is not the only unexplained death haunting Cal McGill, a part-time PhD oceanography student with a macabre interest in floating corpses. Severed feet are washing ashore on Scotland’s beaches and McGill wants to know if they’re wearing trainers. The answer could make all the difference between accident and murder. Then there’s the tragedy of his grandfather who was lost at sea, the mystery which sparked his childhood fascination for tracking flotsam across oceans, the mystery he’s now determined to solve.
AUTHOR Mark Douglas-Home is a successful journalist turned author. He was editor of Scotland’s leading daily newspaper, The Herald, for five years and editor of The Sunday Times Scotland. He has also held senior roles with The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday. When he was Scottish correspondent of The Independent he reported on both the Lockerbie and Piper Alpha disasters. His career 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, he was deported from the country. He is married with two children and lives in Edinburgh. The Sea Detective is his first novel.
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Pub. Date: 20th May 2011 Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd Location: Dingwall, United Kingdom Title Author: Mark Douglas-Home BIC: FF CATEGORY: Crime Format: Jacketed hardback Size: 235 x 154 Extent: 288 RRP: £17.99 ISBN: 978-1-905207-65-7 Distribution: BookSource 50 Cambuslang Road Cambuslang Glasgow G32 8NB United Kingdom 0845 370 0063 0845 370 0064 customerservice@booksource.net