Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he
returns to Fair Isle to introduce his fiancée, Fran, to his parents.
It's a community where everyone knows each other, and strangers, while
welcomed, are still viewed with a degree of mistrust.
Challenging to live on at the best of times, with the autumn storms
raging, the island feels cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped,
tension is high and tempers become frayed.
Enough to drive someone to murder...
When a woman's body is discovered at the renowned Fair Isle bird
observatory, with feathers threaded through her hair, the islanders
react with fear and anger. With no support from the mainland and only
Fran to help him, Jimmy has to investigate the old-fashioned way. He
soon realises that this is no crime of passion - but a murder of cold
and calculated intention.
With no way off the island until the storms abate, Jimmy knows he has
to work quickly. There's a killer on the island just waiting for the
opportunity to strike again.