Published by ThunderPoint Publishing Ltd
Inverness author Helen Forbes has hit the ground running with her debut novel, In The Shadow Of The Hill, a crime story set in Inverness and the Isle of Harris.
Many view the Highlands as a quiet, peaceful place to live and for the majority of the time it us, but she manages to capture the more seedy underbelly of Highland and Island life, which goes un-noticed by the majority of folk.
Like all good crime novels it starts with a murder – an older well-dressed woman is found battered to death in the stairwell of a block of flats in the city’s Ferry area, which immediately grabs your interest.
Detective Sergeant Joe Galbraith starts what seems like one more depressing investigation of the untimely death of a poor unfortunate who was in the wrong place, at the wrong time which leads him back to Harris where he spent his childhood, a time he’d rather forget.
The book follows the past and present lives of a host of interesting characters, whose lives have been touched by love, tragedy and violence which she weaves together nicely in order to reach the page-turning climax which has more twists and turns than the road to the isles, making it impossible to put down.