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Learn morePenguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Women Who Walked into the Sea by Mark Douglas-Home, read by David Monteath.
The daughter who nobody wanted learns the truth about the mother she never knew. A page-turning, heart-breaking mystery 'full of surprises ... this is a classic whodunit' (Scotsman).
Cal McGill is a unique investigator and oceanographer who uses his expertise to locate things - and sometimes people - lost or missing at sea.
His expertise could unravel the haunting mystery of why, twenty-six years ago on a remote Scottish beach, Megan Bates strode out into the cold ocean and let the waves wash her away.
Megan's daughter, Violet Wells, was abandoned as a baby on the steps of a local hospital just hours before the mother she never knew took her own life.
As McGill is drawn into Violet's search for the truth, he encounters a coastal community divided by obsession and grief, and united only by a conviction that its secrets should stay buried...
Praise for The Woman Who Walked into the Sea:
'Simply intoxicating'
Library Journal, USA
'Entertaining and gripping mystery'
The Herald
'A classic whodunit'
The Scotsman
'Cal McGill is a triumph ... a wonderfully unique creation'
crimefictionlover.com
'Great writing, enjoyable story-telling and wonderful characterisation'
The Scots Magazine
Mark Douglas-Home is a journalist turned author, who was editor of the Herald and the Sunday Times Scotland. His career in journalism began as a student in South Africa where he edited the newspaper at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. After the apartheid government banned a number of editions of the paper, he was deported from the country. He is married with two children and lives in Edinburgh.
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Simply intoxicating Entertaining and gripping mystery A classic whodunit Cal McGill is a triumph ... a wonderfully unique creation Great writing, enjoyable story-telling and wonderful characterisation Expand reviewsWant the printed book?
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