Death at Neist Point

<h4><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sticks and stones may break your bones... but your name is going to kill you...</strong></h4><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When the body of a missing teenager is discovered at Neist Point close to the famous lighthouse battered and bruised D.I. Duncan McAdam and his small team must determine how he died.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Skye Ball an annual event steeped in tradition where the next generation of the great and the good meet to celebrate their coming of age and present themselves to one another has always been something of a spectacle for the islanders. The two-day affair culminates in a glitzy dinner followed by a night of Scottish Country Dancing where the young female attendees have a strict plan of who they will be introduced to who they will dance with and to which song. The band plays almost until dawn when the gathered teenagers throw caution to the wind and leap together into Portree Harbour a fitting end to mark their journey from adolescence into adulthood.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This year a dozen teenagers go into the water... only one fails to resurface.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The rescue teams scour the bay in vain searching for the missing boy; the last surviving heir to a Highland land baron dying from a terminal illness. With those who have vested interests in both the boy's survival - and indeed his untimely death - circling the scene laying down markers of their own how will Duncan determine whether the disappearance is a tragic accident or something much more sinister?</span></p>