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Author: Alanna Knight

Genre: Crime, Mystery & Thriller
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780749009656
Pages: 320
Rights: World
Pub. Date: 2011-01-10

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Price: £19.99

Format: Hardback

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The year is 1861 and Inspector Faro is heading back to Orkney to enjoy some home comforts.  However, his rest is disrupted when he is given a special assignment from an old friend, Detective Superintendent Macfie. Macfie’s cousin-in-law, Dave Claydon, a champion swimmer, has drowned in mysterious circumstances. Was his death really an accident, or is something more sinister going on?

Arriving in Orkney, he is met with rumours of missing artefacts, the myth of the seal king, a dead body under the floor of Scarthbreck, Inga St Ola, his first love, and a mother who is determined to find him a wife. But, in Faro’s opinion, no matter how distracting the local legends are, or how valuable the artefacts, one man’s life, or needless death, is truly beyond price. Will he be able to solve the case, or will it disappear into the annals of Orkney?