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  • Location: Scottish Highlands, Outer Hebrides, North Uist

The Liar’s Bones

The Liar’s Bones

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2025: Rachel McKenzie has trust issues. That’s what happens when your father murders your mother..

  • ISBN: 978-1805083146
  • Genre: Crime, Police Procedural

What you need to know before your trail

Rachel McKenzie has trust issues. That’s what happens when your father murders your mother and gets away with it for years. Tormented by her past, Rachel seeks justice for others, investigating suspicious deaths in the remote and rugged Scottish Highlands.

So, when Rachel hears about a drowned woman on the windswept island where her estranged family lives, she’s driven to investigate. Ellen Hargreaves was a newcomer to the isolated isle, but the locals describe her fondly, especially her love of archaeology and the notebook where she always wrote down what she found. A notebook that Rachel can’t now find…

The island’s sergeant wants to label Ellen’s death an accident, but Rachel is convinced there’s more to the story. Her instincts prove right when she discovers that Ellen found a human bone before her death. Had Ellen stumbled onto a dangerous secret?

Rachel is determined to find the truth. But then a teenage girl goes missing shortly after talking to her, and Rachel realises that she has exposed an innocent girl to a twisted killer. Heart pounding and wracked with guilt, Rachel works around the clock to find the vanished girl. But will she get there in time?

Travel Guide

Outer Hebrides – Uist

North Uist is an island and community in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The remoteness of the island and island life really comes across well in this novel. The author uses the land but more importantly, the weather, to really bring home just what day to day life is like here. What a landscape and its weather creates as a community and how it builds resilience in those who live and work but also survive here.

BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Liar’s Bones

Destination/location: North Uist, Outer Hebrides  Author/guide: Morag Pringle  Departure Time: 2025

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