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2000s: The bird loving chief inspector flies up to Scotland this time…
2000s: The bird loving chief inspector flies up to Scotland this time…
A man falls to his death from a cliff face in Scotland. From a distance, another man watches. He approaches the body, tucks a book into the dead man’s pocket, and leaves.
When the Scottish police show visiting Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune the book, he recognizes it as a call for help. But he also knows that answering that call could destroy the life he and his girlfriend Lindy have built for themselves in the village of Saltmarsh, in north Norfolk.
Back in Saltmarsh, the brutal murder of a researcher involved in a local climate change project has everyone looking at the man’s controversial studies as a motive. But Sergeant Danny Maik, heading the investigation in Jejeune’s absence, believes a huge cash incentive being offered for the research may play a crucial role.
With their beleaguered Chief Superintendent blocking every attempt to interview the project’s uber-wealthy owners, Jejeune and Maik must work together to find their answers. But will the men’s partnership survive when the danger from above begins to cast its dark shadow?
“Each bend in the road, you think it can’t possibly get any better, and then, next turn, there’s another vista, even more breathtaking. The beauty is almost indescribable”
“There’s a rawness about the landscape, a stark, rugged bleakness. The Mountains, hills they call them up there, they look like old prize -fighters, all battered and craggy and purple-grey. Even the lowlands have a kind of formidable harshness to them”
Visit the National Trust site at the heart of the Saltmarsh area:
nationaltrust.org.uk/blakeney-nature-reserve
The small Norfolk town of Saltmarsh, located in the heart of Britain’s premier birding country, is the ideal and in fact only location for this novel. A Canadian is living in the bird capital of the UK and as a bird watcher, he really is exactly where he needs to be. Jejeune has been allocated here in England and since he loves birds and everything to do with them, he uses his birding know-how to solve a mystery or two. So next time you’re in the area and see someone watching birds with binoculars, it may just be Jejeune. A Canadian detective in Norfolk who loves birds…
Author/ Guide:Steve Burrows Destination: St Dunnet’s Head, Scottish Highlands, Saltmarsh Departure Time: 2000s
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