A first novel by journalist and newspaper editor Mark Douglas-Home is a real page turner. He successfully brings together a geeky Scottish oceanographer and the trade in Asian children as sex slaves in a plausible murder mystery with the linkage based on the currents in the ocean. Cal McGill is an Oceanographer and geek. He is also a detective and eco-warrior.
Cal is a likeable and believable loner, with a broken marriage in his past and a unique expertise as oceanographer in predicting where ocean currents will take objects or people lost at sea. His family roots on a Hebridean island are shrouded in a mystery that he is determined to solve.
The police were represented by a female junior good cop and a senior, sexist, bad cop, only concerned about his promotion.
It is very good to discover a new crime writer who has developed a unique angle for a Scottish mystery. I look forward to future books in what I am sure will be a series.
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