Discover the chilling first mystery in a truly unique crime series you won't be able to put down 'There comes a time when a novel raises the bar for a particular genre, and The Sea Detective does just that for Scottish crime fiction' SCOTSMAN \\\\\\ Cal McGill is an Edinburgh-based oceanographer, environmentalist and one-of-a-kind investigator. Using his knowledge of the waves - ocean currents, prevailing winds, shipping records - McGill can track where objects have come from, or where they've gone. So when two severed feet wash up miles apart on two different islands off the coast of Scotland, he Most strangely, forensic tests reveal that the feet belong to the same body. As Cal McGill investigates, he unravels a web of corruption, exploitation and violence, which threatens many lives across the globe. Including his own . . . \\\\\\ 'Raises the bar for Scottish crime fiction . . . elegantly written and compelling' The Scotsman 'Excellent' The Literary Review, 'Top Five Crime Books of the Year' 'Promises to be a fine series of detective novels' Sunday Times 'Crime Book of the Month' 'An unusual, interesting and enthralling read' Shotsmag 'A compelling protagonist' The Times Literary Supplement

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... 'Lyrical and compelling, an emotional journey into dark family secrets' Lin Anderson 'A mystery from the school of Ruth Rendell and I can't imagine anyone who likes them not delighting in this' Scotsman 'Simply intoxicating' Library Review USA 'Infinitely better written than the majority of its competitors ... An always entertaining and gripping mystery' Herald

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 . . . Praise for the Sea Detective series: 'Raises the bar ... elegantly written and compelling. A crime writer to watch' The Scotsman 'Always entertaining and gripping' The Herald 'A compelling protagonist' The Times Literary Supplement 'Excellent' The Literary Review (Top Five Crime Novels of the Year)

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 Flora has disappeared too. In desperation, she searches Flora's house, and finds a scrap of paper with a name scribbled on 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 '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