The Unforgiven Dead

Constable Angus "Dubh MacNeils" has the second sight of Gaelic lore, which warns that more people will die unless he closes his eyes and sees. Faye Chichester, the daughter of an American billionaire, has been subjected to a ritualistic, three-fold death, and Angus carries a burden, a blessing, a curse, and a secret—dà-shealladh.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 432 pages
Publication date: 27 July 2023
Publisher: Inkshares

You could have saved her. The haunting refrain echoes in Constable Angus 'Dubh MacNeils mind, a constant reminder of the faces he could not save—the Burned Man, the Strangled Woman, and the Drowned Boy. All witnesses to a secret he cannot share and a gift he now refuses to embrace.

Angus finds himself drawn to the seashore at dawn, where a girl lies on the unblemished sand. She wears a green cloak and cradles a corps creadha, a Highland voodoo doll. She has suffered a ritualistic, three-fold death—her head bludgeoned, her throat cut, and symbolically drowned.

Faye Chichester, daughter of an American billionaire, has been caught up in a controversy surrounding her mission to reintroduce wolves to the Highlands. The village of Glenruig is embroiled in the chaos, but Angus' thoughts are consumed by the refrain—you could have saved her.

He carries a burden, a blessing, a curse, a secret—dà-shealladh, the second sight of Gaelic lore. Gills MacMurdo, a noted folklorist, academic, and Angus' oldest friend, confirms the warning of the dà-shealladh. Just as Faye's death was three-fold, so must the murder victims fulfil the ancient pattern. More will die unless Angus does what he must—close his eyes and see.

Weight: 448g
Dimension: 140 x 210 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781950301096