Literary mystery about places that were emptied - and the people erased with them.
3 books · read in order
Start with Book One“A missing village. A murdered mother. A map someone tried to erase.”
When forensic cartographer Iris Calder learns that the man who raised her has died, she expects grief. She does not expect the letter he left behind. Because hidden inside is a devastating truth: You are not my biological daughter…
“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 …
“Some places aren’t empty. They were emptied.”
Kirsty is the one they come to now. Two years a solicitor and the youngest keeper of a count that began before she was born, she takes her first case alone: Eilean Fàire, a Hebridean island famously and ‘voluntarily’ abandoned by …
Literary mystery about places that were emptied - and the people erased with them.
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