A dark Scottish loch before dawn with mist over black water

A Crime Thriller Series

The Hollow
Coast

Seven novels. One wound. Thirty-seven years of silence.

The Story

Four boys were never found.

In October 1987, five boys disappeared from the coast near Kinloch. One was recovered. Four were never found.

For thirty-seven years the town has arranged itself around that absence — carefully, quietly, the way small places learn to. Then the past begins to surface again.

The Hollow Coast is a seven-novel crime series set on a fictionalised stretch of the Scottish Highland coast. Each book opens another part of the same wound.

You can read it here, chapter by chapter, in a reading environment built for the story rather than for a shop window.

Overarching series copy is drawn from the series bible. Sections marked as placeholders are held for the authoritative source material and remain editable from the admin area.

The First Book — Book One

Dark Water

In October 1987, five boys went out to the coast near Kinloch. One came back.

Book One of The Hollow Coast. In October 1987 five boys disappeared from the coast near Kinloch. One was recovered. Four were never found. Thirty-seven years later a killing on the loch shore drags the case back to the surface, and DI Melissa Steed returns to a town that has spent a lifetime not talking about it.

Chapters: 17
Estimated reading: ~6 hrs
Free to read: Prologue + Ch. 1

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The World