Stoirm Island's secrets are worth killing for in this immersive,
unrelenting thriller for readers of All the Missing Girls and Neon
Prey--"this crime novel has it all" (Publishers Weekly, starred
review).
When reporter Rebecca Connolly gets a tip that suspected murderer Roddie
Drummond will be returning to the island of Stoirm, she smells a story.
Though never convicted in the death of his girlfriend Mhairi fifteen
years earlier, Drummond is still guilty in the eyes of many islanders,
and his return for his mother's funeral is sure to stir up old
resentments, hatreds, possibly even violence. Rebecca has another reason
for going to Stoirm. Her own father came from there, but he never went
back, and he always refused to speak of it or say what drove him away.
Defying her editor, Rebecca joins forces with local photographer Chazz
Wymark to dig into the mystery surrounding Mhairi's death and her
unexplained last words, "Thunder Bay"--the secluded spot on the west
coast of the island where, according to local lore, the souls of the
dead set off into the afterlife. When a string of violent events erupts
across the island, Rebecca discovers the power of secrets, and she must
decide what to bury, and what to bring into the light.
Longlisted for Bloody Scotland's McIlvanney Prize for best crime book of
the year, Thunder Bay has been hailed as "Immersive, compelling . . .
[with a] jaw-dropping climax" (Neil Broadfoot, author of the MacGregor
and Drummond thrillers).).
