Mark Douglas-Home
Author
Series
Sea detective volume 1
Publisher
Sandstonepress
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Help me, please help me.' It was a young woman's voice, pleading with him. He opened the door, certain that 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. She told him her name and why she'd broken into his flat. Her young friend had died three years ago, she said. Her body had been fished out of the sea off the Argyll coast. She begged him not to...
Author
Series
Sea detective volume 2
Publisher
Sandstonepress
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young woman stands on a remote beach in North West Scotland, gazing out to sea. Watching her is Cal McGill, the Sea Detective, an oceanographer with a reputation for solving crimes by tracking human bodies and other sea-borne objects. Soon Cal is helping her unravel the events of twenty-six years ago when a different woman walked across this sweep of sand and into the waves, apparently drowning herself and her unborn child. Mary Anderson, grown...
Author
Series
Sea detective volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cal McGill is the sea detective: an oceanographer and one-of-a-kind investigator who uses his knowledge of the waves to find where objects came from, or track where they've gone. For five years Priest's Island has guarded the mystery of Max Wheeler's disappearance. In this isolated township on the edge of the Atlantic, there are no secrets -- except what really happened to fourteen-year-old Max. Now Cal McGill has taken up the quest. A grieving father,...