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PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9780718182748
RRP: £12.99
PAGES: 336
PUBLICATION DATE:
January 14, 2016
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The Woman Who Walked into the Sea
Mark Douglas-Home
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:’Simply intoxicating’ Library Journal, USA’Entertaining and gripping mystery’The Herald’A classic whodunit’The Scotsman’Cal McGill is a triumph … a wonderfully unique creation’crimefictionlover.com’Great writing, enjoyable story-telling and wonderful characterisation’The Scots Magazine
Reviews of The Woman Who Walked into the Sea
Simply intoxicating * Library Journal, USA * Entertaining and gripping mystery * The Herald * A classic whodunit * The Scotsman * Cal McGill is a triumph … a wonderfully unique creation * crimefictionlover.com * Great writing, enjoyable story-telling and wonderful characterisation * The Scots Magazine *
Mark Douglas-Home
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, he was deported from the country. He is married with two children and lives in Edinburgh.