The Series
Seven novels. One wound. Thirty-seven years of silence.
Book 1
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.
Book 2
Book Two of The Hollow Coast. Callum Spencer returns to Kinloch when the past reaches his own family, and the record his father kept of October 1987 becomes the most dangerous thing on the coast.
Book 3
Book Three of The Hollow Coast. A series of assaults along the coast, each more violent than the last, follows a pattern that mirrors the geography of the 1987 disappearances. The perpetrator appears to know details of the original case that were never made public. Dr Siobhan Lowe, forensic psychologist and Home Office consultant, is called in to profile the offender — and discovers the attacks are not random violence but a form of communication.
Book 4
Book Four of The Hollow Coast. A Scottish Parliament member is found dead in a locked Kinloch hotel room. The death is ruled a heart attack — but DI Melissa Steed notices something that shouldn't be there: a symbol carved into the window frame, the same symbol photographed at the 1987 site. Retired cold case analyst Noah Cassel steps out of the shadows as co-investigator, and Melissa finally opens her father's box.
Book 5
Book Five of The Hollow Coast. Criminal barrister Elena Shaw is defending a man charged with the murder of a Kinloch fisherman — and realises her client is innocent, framed to shut down an investigation getting too close to 1987. Legal thriller and investigative journalism collide as Elena and Callum Spencer take on a justice system that may have been rotten from the beginning.
Book 6
Book Six of The Hollow Coast. A carefully worded message draws Petra Hale, Melissa Steed and Callum Spencer toward Reverend David Ansell — and a culture of silence built to protect old wounds from exposure.
Book 7
Book Seven of The Hollow Coast. Melissa Steed leads the final investigation, armed with thirty-seven years of accumulated evidence, against the last surviving member of the network — a figure so embedded in Kinloch's identity that prosecuting them means destroying the town's image of itself. The full cast reassembles for the reckoning the coast has been waiting for.