The Drowned Glen
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“They said the glen was empty when the water came. An old woman spent a lifetime proving they lied.”
Forensic cartographer Iris Calder reconstructs the truth of places for a living. So when a letter arrives from a seventy-four-year-old woman in Wick — carrying a death toll no official record will admit — Iris follows it north to Glen Sennach: a Highland valley deliberately flooded for a reservoir in 1966, with a house, and thirteen people, still forty feet beneath the surface.
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How it begins
Chrissie Ballantyne had been told the water would take three days to reach the house, and she had believed it, because a man from the Board had said it in a warm office in Inverness with a map on the wall, and she had not yet learned that the things men say in warm offices with maps on the walls are the most dangerous kind of true.
She understood her mistake at four in the morning, when she went out to the byre with a lamp and found the burn — the small clean burn that had run past the foot of the glen for as long as anyone had counted, that the children drank from, that she had washed her own face in every morning of the six years she had worked at Sennach House — running the wrong way. Not falling toward the sea, the way water is supposed to fall. Backing up the glen. Rising toward the house, slow and black and patient, filling the low ground the way a bath fills, from the bottom, without hurry, without sound.
Is this your kind of book?
The Drowned Glen is literary mystery — places that were emptied — and the people erased with them. It is written for readers who want the patient kind of crime and suspense: plotted, unhurried, and more interested in what people conceal than in how loudly it ends.
This is Book Two of The Unmapped. Each book closes its own case, so it can be read on its own — but the series is built to be read in order, and starting at The Unmapped means the connections land the way they were written.
The The Unmapped in order
- The Unmappedfree
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- The Cleared Island$5.99
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