Why a Booktrail?
1915: An isolated community – strange occurrences that cannot be explained…..
Greater Sins
What you need to know before your trail
An isolated Scottish community is disturbed by a strange discovery: a body in a peat bog, perfectly preserved. Two people haul the body from the ground: Lizzie, the wife of a wealthy local landowner, and Johnny, a nomadic singer and farm hand. At hearthside and inn, people whisper: what have we unearthed?
One unveiling brings others. For Lizzie, tenacious but trapped, the discovery reveals unanswered questions about her past while for Johnny, it threatens to uncover a history he’s trying to outrun.
As their stories entwine, a series of unsettling events befalls the isolated community: ruinous weather, a damaged soldier, strange occurrences that cannot be explained. Against the echoes of distant war, and with the boundaries blurring between right and wrong, everyone is looking for someone to blame…
Locations
Reset- Scotland - Aberdeenshire - Cabrach
- A: Cabrach
- B: Cabrach Church
- C: Cabrach & Glenfiddich Estates
- D: Glenfiddich Distillery Visitor Centre
- E: Aberdeen - harbour
Travel Guide
Cabrach, Aberdeenshire
“The Cabrach is not a place for great displays of emotion – its people know hardship and they know loss, and it’s expected they won’t fall down weeping about either.”
For a small community this comes across as a big place when you immerse yourself in these pages. It’s placed under a spotlight and you smell the peat, the earth and feel the rain on your face. You can see the men working outside, those heading to war….There is a sense of foreboding here on this remote and raw place.
Booktrailer Review
The Cabrach – well this has to be one of the most fascinating remote settlements in a book. Those who live there live simple lives and the whole area smells of peaty whisky. Johnny and Lizzie are our POVs and when a body is found in the peat, it’s them that the villagers turn to for answers and guidance. These two voices are very clearly marked and they go down different paths which weave in and out of the narrative. Until the full picture is in the picture.
What a setting and what an atmospheric read. The local Scottish vernacular was perfect and words are easily guessed in context. The stories merge by the end and the characters and truth are revealed in all their glory.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Greater Sins
Destination/location: Cabrach, Aberdeenshire Author/guide: Gabrielle Griffiths Departure Time: 1915 2025
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