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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

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Simply intoxicating Library Journal, USA

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Douglas-Home, Mark
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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