Where the Missing Gather
'Helen Sedgwick saw into the future and that future is now!' Lemn Sissay, author of My Name Is Why
1st Edition
Published on 3. June 2021
416 pages
978-1-78607-978-7 (ISBN)
Description
'Unputdownable... Helen Sedgwick saw into the future and that future is now! It's an incredible book! READ IT.' Lemn Sissay on When the Dead Come Calling
Gone but not forgotten...
An archaeological dig exposes a brutal history and a witness finally speaks. It seems the wickedness swirling in the harsh sea air of Burrowhead might be excised at last.
But before DI Georgie Strachan can lift the veil of evil, a black horse is slaughtered on an altar in the woods and human remains begin to surface. Sinister rituals connect past and present but no one wants to see, or tell, or hear, the truth. Soon Georgie must face the question: where do the missing souls of the village gather?
Gone but not forgotten...
An archaeological dig exposes a brutal history and a witness finally speaks. It seems the wickedness swirling in the harsh sea air of Burrowhead might be excised at last.
But before DI Georgie Strachan can lift the veil of evil, a black horse is slaughtered on an altar in the woods and human remains begin to surface. Sinister rituals connect past and present but no one wants to see, or tell, or hear, the truth. Soon Georgie must face the question: where do the missing souls of the village gather?
Reviews / Votes
'Another triumph. A masterful blend of crime and psychological suspense, with a hint of the supernatural for added chill... An immersive, haunting read.' -- Mary Paulson-Ellis, author of Emily Noble's Disgrace 'Those who loved When the Dead Come Calling... will enjoy getting reacquainted with DI Georgie Strachan.' -- Herald, 25 of the best summer books 'Sedgwick's writing is evocative and compassionate and always draws us back... For a novel which has its roots in the ancient past, Where the Missing Gather is a sharply observed story for these anxious, post-Brexit times.' -- Scotland on Sunday '[Sedgwick] sustains a suspenseful atmosphere of psychological and supernatural unease that will have you glancing nervously over your shoulder.' -- Herald '[Sedgwick] explores sinister rituals and missing souls in this unputdownable crime novel.' -- Scottish Book Trust Praise for When the Dead Come Calling:'Unputdownable... Helen Sedgwick saw into the future and that future is now! It's an incredible book! READ IT.' Lemn Sissay, author of My Name Is Why
'Helen Sedgwick is one of Scotland's finest contemporary storytellers.' Claire Askew, author of All the Hidden Truths
'Sedgwick's writing is minutely observational, clever and warm.' Scotsman
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oneworld Publications
File size
0,99 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78607-978-7 (9781786079787)
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Helen Sedgwick
Where the Missing Gather
'Helen Sedgwick saw into the future and that future is now!' Lemn Sissay, author of My Name Is Why
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Helen Sedgwick is the author of The Comet Seekers and The Growing Season, which was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Fiction Book of the Year in 2018. The opener to her Burrowhead Mysteries crime trilogy, When the Dead Come Calling, was published in 2020, followed by Where the Missing Gather in 2021. She has an MLitt in Creative Writing from Glasgow University and has won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. Before she became an author, she was a research physicist with a PhD in Physics from Edinburgh University. She lives in the Scottish Highlands.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Lost
- A Way Back
- Today
- Time Well Spent
- Making Things Right
- Meanwhile, In The City
- Trusting Time, Part One
- Trusting Time, Part Two
- Trusting Time, Part Three
- Changeling
- All the Haunted Places
- A Way Back
- Taking Care
- What Gets Left Behind
- Clocking-Off Time
- Evening's Meeting
- Night Moths
- Late Secrets
- Sometime Towards Dawn
- Found
- Under the Soil
- Above the Land
- From the Sky
- Ways to Never be Hurt
- A Reluctant Drive Before Lunch
- Casting Blame
- Two of the Good Villagers
- Taste of the Morning
- What Comes to those who Wait
- How Georgie Became Lost
- Things Needed, Things Found
- A Way Back
- Letting the Light In
- Excavations
- Not alone any more
- Crossed Lines
- Evening Shade
- Blood Thicker than Water
- New Friends Over Old
- Now more than Ever
- How Things Look on the Night Shift
- A Way Back
- After Dark
- Two Thousand Years Ago
- Buried
- A Way Back
- First Things First
- Hope, Early
- How Georgie Met Fergus in the First Place
- A Different Kind of Hope, A Little Later on
- Too Many Questions
- Midday Sun
- Out of Luck
- Misunderstandings before Lunch
- The Same Time Every Day
- Unexpected Understanding in the Afternoon
- Secrets, Unearthed
- Confession at Quarter to Three
- Eyes, Watching
- Someone who Might Remember
- A Way Back
- Regretting Time
- How Love can be Lonely
- Surfacing Connections, Part One
- New Roots
- Surfacing Connections, Part Two
- How Love can be Missed
- Surfacing Connections, Part Three
- Lost in the Night
- One Final Thing
- Begun
- The End of Something
- Reasons to Run Away
- Reasons to Stay
- Clutching at Straws
- The Way Power can Fade of a Morning
- Twisting into the Afternoon
- Trusting Time at Last
- The Shapes you can see when you look the Right Way
- Running Out of Last Chances
- Lost
- Confrontation, 4 P.M.
- Begun
- For all the Wrong Right Reasons
- Buried
- A Way Back
- Reunion Time
- Found
- Out of Options
- The Insiders
- The Outsiders
- The Missing
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright
