Undiscovered Scotland

 

We like to think our book reviews here on Undiscovered Scotland are objective. Just occasionally, achieving that becomes more challenging than usual. We should therefore start this review by declaring an interest. "Bridge of Sighs" is written by a member of the team here at Undiscovered Scotland. The potential conflict of interest goes even further than that, however, because the book is published by Arachnid Press Ltd, which is very closely related to Undiscovered Scotland.

So, with all that out in the open, if we'd simply stumbled across "Bridge of Sighs" by Ken Lussey, would we recommend it? Well, yes, obviously: or we'd not be involved in its publication. But then you'd expect us to say that, wouldn't you? Rather than seek to give opinions, we'll confine the rest of the review to a description drawn from the publisher's blurb.

"Bridge of Sighs" is a fast-paced contemporary murder mystery set in Edinburgh and northern Scotland. In a chilling echo of an event five decades earlier, a light aircraft takes off from a small Scottish airfield and doesn’t return. What caused its one-way flight out over the Atlantic? Callum and Jenny Anderson are asked to investigate.

Meanwhile, someone is trying to deter the developers of the of the Sutherland Viking Haven, a major tourist attraction being built near Kylesku. Who? And could they also be behind the rise in incidents of damage to the vehicles of inconsiderate or irresponsible users of the North Coast 500? Events take a very sinister turn when a body is found in a burned-out shop in Inverness. And then there’s another killing. It becomes clear that for Callum and Jenny, the risks are coming ever closer to home.

"Bridge of Sighs" is available as an eBook from Kindle, Kobo or Apple: see the links on this page.