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2000s: Secrets have a habit of floating to the surface..
Dead in the Water (DI Marjory Fleming 5 )
What you need to know before your trail
A body of a pregnant young girl is found washed up on the rocks. Twenty years on and sadly the murder remains unsolved. With the girl’s father now dead and the mother refusing to talk about what went on all those years ago, there is not many people left who might be able to help solve the case.
Detective Inspector Marjory Fleming however, is called in to reopen the case that her late father, a policeman, was unable to put to rest. As Fleming digs deeper it becomes clear that her father had struggled to keep secret some of the shameful details around the young girl’s death.
Can she handle the truth she will unearth, not just about her father but about herself?
Travel Guide
Welcome to the Mull of Galloway
“Thundering waves lashed the cliffs, launching thenselves as walls of water thirty, forty feet hight around the Mull of Galloway,the exposed southermost top of Scotland
High above on the headland, from the solid bulk of the great white lighthouse, the lantern’s beams stabbed at the encompassing darkness as it revolved, revolved, slowly and steadily through the night”
The lighthouse on the cover and that in the book are inspired by the very lighthouse here and so you have to take a visit and see it for yourself!
Wigtown (Dumfries and Galloway)
Wigtown in Galloway is the Scottish Book Town. This is popular town in the area and one the author is familiar with. It’s the Scottish book town and houses the famous festival each year, then it’s definitely a destination of choice for any booktrailer!
Kirkluce (fictional)
Galloway Constabulary in set in the fictional town of Kirkluce. There is also a village called Glenluce which could also have inspired the setting if not the name.
Streetview Maps
A) Mull of Galloway Lighthouse
C) "Kirkluce"
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Dead in the Water (DI Marjory Fleming 5 )
Author/ Guide: Aline Templeton Destination: Dumfries and Galloway, Kirkluce Departure Time: 2000s
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