Dark Island
2024

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Midwinter in Orkney. Six hours of daylight. A race against time to catch a killer. Reporter Freya Sinclair has always known she was different. While waiting on the outcome of an autism assessment, Freya uproots her life in Glasgow, quitting her job at one of Scotland's top broadsheets and taking a local beat in her childhood home of Orkney. But her plans for a quiet life are shattered when human remains are unburied by a winter storm on Orkney's wild Atlantic coast. The identity of the bones opens old wounds in the islands, and sheds light on a darker truth nobody wants to accept. As the nights draw in, Freya's obsessive hunt for answers turns into a cat and mouse game, with each secret she unearths threatening her job, her family, and presenting a murderer with their next victim. In a place where nothing stays buried forever, is uncovering the truth more important than saving lives?


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Orkney Mysteries is a 1-book series first released in 2024 with contributions by Daniel Aubrey.

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I found this book through the author's post on Instagram and was excited to try a new mystery set in the Orkney Islands. I would read more in the series. It feels like Aubrey is still finding his feet - the descriptions were a little heavy handed and I hated the crime itself.

September 2, 2024