They said the glen was empty when the water came. An old woman spent a lifetime proving they lied. Forensic cartographer Iris Calder reconstructs the truth of places for a living. So when a letter arrives from a seventy-four-year-old woman in Wick - carrying a death toll no official record will admit - Iris follows it north to Glen Sennach: a Highland valley deliberately flooded for a reservoir in 1966, with a house, and thirteen people, still forty feet beneath the surface.
They were signed off as evacuated. The paperwork is flawless. Only the loch - and one survivor who never stopped counting - say otherwise. To prove what the water has hidden for six decades, Iris and her sister must raise a drowned glen from the two things a flood can never move: a skyline and a river. The Drowned Glen is a haunting, atmospheric Scottish crime novel - Book Two of the Iris Calder series, for readers of Tana French, Ann Cleeves, and Jane Harper.
They said the glen was empty when the water came. An old woman spent a lifetime proving they lied. Forensic cartographer Iris Calder reconstructs the truth of places for a living. So when a letter arrives from a seventy-four-year-old woman in Wick - carrying a death toll no official record will admit - Iris follows it north to Glen Sennach: a Highland valley deliberately flooded for a reservoir in 1966, with a house, and thirteen people, still forty feet beneath the surface.
They were signed off as evacuated. The paperwork is flawless. Only the loch - and one survivor who never stopped counting - say otherwise. To prove what the water has hidden for six decades, Iris and her sister must raise a drowned glen from the two things a flood can never move: a skyline and a river. The Drowned Glen is a haunting, atmospheric Scottish crime novel - Book Two of the Iris Calder series, for readers of Tana French, Ann Cleeves, and Jane Harper.