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The Castle in the Glen
First published 2026
In 1965, Australian writer Emma Callander is hired to complete the final mystery novel of the celebrated but failing author Iris Blackburn. Iris sends Emma to the Isle of Skye to research a supposed fictional case involving a couple who drowned in 1904 and a young woman known as the Wild Girl who disappeared soon afterwards.
Emma discovers that Iris’s story is based on an unsolved crime connected to a powerful local family. Working with Iris’s lawyer, Tony Gordon, she searches the castle and surviving records while descendants of those involved attempt to keep the truth buried.
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