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2000s: The work of the Sea Detective continues with a 25 year old mystery of a woman who simply walked into the sea
The Woman Who Walked Into the Sea (Sea Detective 2)
What you need to know before your trail
Cal McGill is known as a sea detective. He has a unique set of skills and uses the waves and the rhythm of the sea to locate things which have ended up in the dark mysterious waters. The skills of this oceanographer could well come in handy for 26 years ago, a woman Megan Bates who lived in a remote Scottish village, walked into the sea from the remote beach and was drawn into the deep dark waters. Her baby daughter Violet was abandoned just hours before so she never knew her mother. But now she wants to find some answers. But as McGill comes to the remote village to investigate, he is met with suspicion and obsession in a community that wants secrets to stay buried.
Travel Guide
Poltown may be fictional yet it is based on many a remote community up and around the Highlands of Scotland. It’s said to be somewhere within an hour of Ullapool so we’ve highlighted this area on the map above. The author says it’s not based on any place as villages in Scotland already has a rich history of its own, but just as well as Poltown is not very pleasant. There’s not much of outside interest in the town – it mainly consists of a council estate built sometime in the 1960s. The cast of characters who live here include the rich man who lives in the largest house with a servant nearby, a dilapidated farm, remote and empty fields, and a community viewing outsiders with suspicion and angry over a possible wind farm which could soon blight the landscape. This place is raw, only the ones who understand the nature and environment of the land can only truly understand the people who live there.
Poltown is not a place you would want to linger for long – it got its name from the fact it’s an example of misplaced suburban planning and was set up for the workforces of the Nato refuelling department -POL standing for Petroleum, oil and lubricants. An on line guide is found giving alternatives for places nearby – “to save you the bother of visiting” You can see why Poltown had to be fictional. Its people are insular as the coastal community in which they live. The town is blighted by many problems, but the one where a woman just walks into the sea is the most worrying of them all.
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