Shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland MacIlvanney Debut Scottish Crime Prize 2019.
On the Scottish Hebridean Island of Islay, five corpses are dug up by a peat-cutter. All of them have been shot in the back of the head, execution style.
Sent across from the mainland to investigate, Inspector Angus Blue and his team slowly piece together the little evidence they have, and discover the men were killed on a wartime base, over 70 years ago.
But there are still secrets worth protecting, and even killing for.
The Dead of Jura (Inspector Angus Blue Book 12
Marion Todd - “A ‘must read’ for fans of Scottish crime fiction”
Olga Wojtas - “Subtle, complex and intense as a fine island malt.”
Jura: where the rich and the powerful come to play away from the prying eyes of the press.
But when there is an assassination attempt on a Cabinet Minister whiles he's on his island estate, questions must be asked, and Inspector Angus Blue and his team return to the Hebrides to investigate.
Deemed a matter of 'National Security' by London, local protocols are overruled, and Special Branch officers are sent to hunt down the assassin. By the time Inspector Blue and his team arrive the estate staff have been scared into silence, and the crime scene has been disturbed.
His investigation hampered at every turn, Inspector Blue must discover what Special Branch are hiding - and who they are protecting.
