The Sea Detective (Sea Detective 1)

Travel Guide

A Sea Detective, an oceanographer has a unique set of skills. This is someone who can discover where objects have come from which are floating in the ocean. He looks at the currents of the ocean, the winds, the weather and the shipping forecasts. Ways the sea behaves can really tell him the secrets it holds beneath. The skill of oceanography is very real and realistically portrayed as being a science that few know of but in the highlands of Scotland, islands which reveal gruesome secrets could need his skills to reveal their past.

Another world comes into play on these remote islands as a woman called Basanti turns up asking for help to locate her friend Preeti. The world of slave trade and the Bedia tradition are another current to the already turbulent state of affairs. Mix in the rural and isolated rural fishing communities and this is a world where the elements rule and where three very different people and cultures are just as mixed as the ocean currents.

There is a lot of scientific discoveries to be made in this book such as the nature of the currents in and around the Atlantic Ocean – the Gulf Stream, the Canary current and the North Equatorial. The Labrador current circles the east coast of Canada and the North Atlantic Current flows upwards past the UK. A fascinating study of the oceans indeed.

The sea is biting, the wind cold and although often calm on the surface has a violent and dangerous undercurrent. The island environment is isolating uninviting and chillingly bitter and the Sea Detective is a mix of scientific discovery, criminal deeds and rural rugged Scotland is a major character throughout.