1861. Constable Faro is heading home to Orkney, pursuing a private investigation into the mysterious drowning of an ex-colleague's relative, champion swimmer Dave Claydon. Was this an accident or does Claydon's death have a sinister connection with missing artefacts recovered from the Armada galleon sunk off Spanish Cove? At Scarthbreck Faro's mother is determined to find him a wife, and this Lammastide the legend of the seal king's annual claim of a human bride becomes reality. Faro's holiday and his original secret mission turn into a nightmare. With himself as the crime suspect in a girl's disappearance, he is in deadly danger, his life threatened by circumstances beyond his control.
- ISBN13 9780749040277
- Publish Date 26 March 2012 (first published 1 January 2011)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 May 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Allison & Busby
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English
- URL https://murdochbooks.com.au/browse/books/9780749040277