Mark Douglas-Home Bücher

TWO MISSING WOMEN. AN OCEAN FULL OF SECRETS . . . 'A first-class mystery - perplexing and at times disturbing' i 'Intelligence, imagination and lucid writing' The Times __________ Kate and Flora have always been haunted by a mystery - their mother, Christine, vanished without trace when they were children. But now Kate has a more urgent problem: Flora has disappeared too. In desperation, she searches Flora's house, and finds a scrap of paper with a name scribbled on it: Cal McGill. Cal is a 'sea detective': an expert in the winds and the tides, and consequently adept at finding lost things - and lost people. Can Cal find Flora? And might he even know the secret of what happened to their mother, all those years ago . . . ? __________ 'I'm completely addicted to this series' Dermot O'Leary Praise for Mark Douglas-Home: 'I could not put it down' 5***** reader review 'The best novel I have read in years. A real page turner' 5***** reader review 'Utter brilliance' 5***** reader review 'Many twists and turns and kept me intrigued to the end' 5***** reader review

One of the most unique crime series ever continues with a missing persons investigation. 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, a community riven by tragedy -- and resentful of the suspicion -- all make a powderkeg of secrets and vengeance ready to explode.

An evocative account of one man's life spent fishing on arguably the world's best salmon river; a story of family, tradition, conservation and the Scottish countryside.

Cal McGill ist Meeresbiologe. Seine Spezialität: per Computer die Route von Gegenständen im Wasser zu verfolgen, um Umweltsünder zur Strecke zu bringen. Doch bei seinem Einsatz für die Natur überschreitet der Sea Detective bisweilen legale Grenzen: Als er in den Gärten hochrangiger Politiker Weißen Silberwurz pflanzt, um auf den Klimawandel hinzuweisen, nimmt man ihn fest. Detective Helen Jamieson von der Polizei Edinburgh kommt der sympathische junge Mann gerade recht. Denn vor der Küste wurden kurz zuvor zwei abgetrennte Füße entdeckt. Bei ihren Recherchen stoßen Cal und Helen auf ein Netz aus Korruption, Ausbeutung und Menschenhandel. Und auf ein indisches Mädchen, das sie vielleicht noch retten können.

Cal McGill watches the young woman through the dirty windscreen of his Toyota. There's something compelling about her stillness, about the length of time she has been standing square-shouldered, erect, staring out to sea, like an Antony Gormley statue waiting for another of its cast-iron tribe to emerge from the deep. What has brought her to this remote beach, he asks himself. Is she a kindred spirit who finds refuge by the shore? Idle curiosity soon turns into another investigation for oceanographer and loner McGill as he embarks on a quest to discover why, 26 years earlier, another young woman walked accross this sweep of sand and into the waves, apparently drowning herself and her unborn child