Morag Ramsay is trying to be in optimistic mood, having had murder charges against her dropped due to lack of evidence. But she can remember nothing about the day of the killings . . . or whether she is innocent. With the help of a stranger who turns up on her doorstep, Morag begins to piece together her fragmentary recollection of those recent but traumatic events . . .
Een man keert terug naar zijn geboorteplaats om te onderzoeken of zijn inmiddels overleden vader al dan niet schuldig was aan de moord op drie tienermeisjes meer dan dertig jaar geleden.
On a morning in 1973, Miller McAllister's world fell apart. That was the weekend that police found the remains of three missing teenage girls on the Scottish island of Fidra and Miller's father, Douglas, was arrested for triple murder. Thirty-two years later, Douglas has died in prison. Could McAllister have been innocent after all?
Innes? Innes, it�s Isabella. Isabella Velasco . . .� A simple message on an answer machine. But one that made Innes Haldane�s blood run cold. Isabella Velasco was a name from a past that Innes had tried hard to forget. For in 1977 both had spent a fateful year at the Unit, an experimental home for dysfunctional teenagers in Edinburgh. Now, after almost three decades, Isabella is trying to make contact. But before she can reach her, Innes learns that Isabella has committed suicide. And shock quickly turns to fear when she hears that another former patient has also recently killed himself. Has some dark event from 1977 finally come back to haunt them all?