The Wolf Tree

DEBUTGlasgow DI Georgina “George” Lennox and her partner, DI Richie Stewart, are sent to investigate a death in an isolated community on the barren rocky island Eilean Eadar. It’s the second time Eilean Eadar has been in the spotlight. In 1919, three lighthouse keepers vanished there; their case remains unsolved. The Glasgow police suspect that Alan Ferguson’s recent fall from that same lighthouse is a death by suicide, but they’re investigating because he was just 18 and had strange marks around his mouth. Eilean Eadar’s 206 residents are angry and suspicious, and the children have been warned not to talk to the police. They answer questions when the village priest insists, but the police are not welcome; there’s even a curse placed on their temporary residence. George, who’s struggling after a violent incident on the job, swears she hears wolves howling at night. The two officers have just five days to find answers in a frightened community whose members feel obligation only to each other.