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Murder on Mull
Many Mull legends are featured in Helen Fields’ new murder book – including Lochbuie stone circle and Mackinnon’s Cave Award-winning crime writer Helen Fields returns to Mull as the murder scene for her 12th book, The Last Girl To Die, due out in September. The Last Girl to Die explores every worst parent’s nightmare, as teenage girls go missing from their homes on Mull in the middle of the night, only to be discovered the next day brutally murdered in an ancient pagan ritual. Helen discovered a number of legends about the Isle of Mull during her research, many to do with the witches of Mull which she uses in the book, including the legendary Mull witch Doideag, who was said to be more powerful than the clan chief and responsible for the sinking of a Spanish galleon. Also at the heart of the novel is the ancient LochWith a background as both a prosecutor and defence buie stone circle: nine counsel, Helen Fields has a depth of knowledge about granite rocks that sit silently crime that lends to her writing. in their own natural amphitheatre, overlooked by legend has it that the area is family barrister working for the slopes of Ben Buie. haunted. both the prosecution and Although most visitors find Helen, who has backthe defence, sets murder it a place of tranquillity, ground as a criminal and a in the novel in Mull’s famous
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