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  • Location: Outer Hebrides, Inner Hebrides

The Visitors

Destination: Hebrides   Departure Time: 2000s This book brings the mythical and creepy nature of the Scottish islands to life.

  • Location: Isle of Harris

Secrets of the Sea House

1860s, 1990s: Based on a real nineteenth-century letter to The Times in which a Scottish clergyman claimed to have seen a mermaid…

  • Location: Glasgow, Stirling, Island of Inchmahome

Cold Grave

1993: Two people walk across frozen Lake Menteith towards the island of Inchmahome but only one of them returns..

  • Location: The Hebrides (fictional Pig Island)

Pig Island

2000s: Just where is this mysterious and strange sounding island? we wanted to find out!

  • Location: Shetland Islands, Sullom Voe

Dead Water (Shetland 5)

2000s: Shetland is once again evoked through the eyes of Ann Cleeves whose love for the islands shines through. Here she writes about the fishing…

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An Enigma by the Sea

2025: A couple vanishes from a locked villa….

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