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2025: A remote Highland castle. A dark and stormy night. A murder most haunting.
A Dead Man Walking
What you need to know before your trail
It’s Halloween, and when an elderly billionaire is discovered dead in the locked study of his stately Highland home, DCI Jack Logan and his team must race the worsening weather to get to the scene of the crime.
There, among the victim’s extended family and staff, Jack finds no shortage of suspects. Everyone, it seems, had reason to want the old man dead, and they all have something to hide.
Cut off from back-up by the worst storm in decades, and with the cast and crew of a TV ghost hunting show seriously cramping his style, Jack’s only chance of solving his latest case is by going back to basics.
But the castle’s residents won’t give him a minute to think.
Not even the dead ones
Locations
Reset- Scottish Highlands/West Coast of Scotland
- A: Gylen Castle
- B: Duntrune Castle
- C: Knockderry Castle
- D: Culzean Castle
Travel Guide
Scottish Highlands
The novel takes place in a fictional castle somewhere on the West Coast of Scotland – there’s a few places on the map to imagine when you read.
In the novel:
“The Castle’s front doors opened into a great hall, which could have comfortably accommodated logan’s entire house twice over, and still have room left over for a wee outdoor seating area and shed.”
“The scale of the place was the first thing they noticed. The second thing they noticed was the army of dead things.”
BookTrail Boarding Pass: A Dead Man Walking
Destination/location: Scottish Highlands Author/guide: J D Kirk Departure Time: 2025
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