When the Dead Come Calling: The Burrowhead Mysteries: A Scottish Book Trust 2020 Great Scottish Novel (Burrowhead, #1)

by Helen Sedgwick

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A Scottish Book Trust 2020 Great Scottish Novel

‘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

In the first of the Burrowhead Mysteries, an atmospheric murder investigation unearths the brutal history of a village where no one is innocent.


When psychotherapist Alexis Cosse is found murdered in the playground of the sleepy northern village of Burrowhead, DI Strachan and her team of local police investigate, exposing a maelstrom of racism, misogyny and homophobia simmering beneath the surface of the village.

Shaken by the revelations and beginning to doubt her relationship with her husband, DI Strachan discovers something lurking in the history of Burrowhead, while someone (or something) equally threatening is hiding in the strange and haunted cave beneath the cliffs...

  • ISBN10 1786075695
  • ISBN13 9781786075697
  • Publish Date 9 January 2020 (first published 12 December 2019)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 18 August 2023
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Point Blank
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 384
  • Language English