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The Purified
In the sequel to Errant Blood, C F Peterson brings us a new crime thriller set in the Scottish Highlands.
Eamon's newfound happiness is shattered by the kind of murder that the government doesn't want to believe happens anymore. Detective Maclean thinks he has the killer, but something far worse than a body has been found beneath the waters of the Loch, something that should never have been brought to the surface, and now it is not just TV crews that are watching the village.
This novel is the second in the series set in and around the village of Duncul.
Eamon's newfound happiness is shattered by the kind of murder that the government doesn't want to believe happens anymore. Detective Maclean thinks he has the killer, but something far worse than a body has been found beneath the waters of the Loch, something that should never have been brought to the surface, and now it is not just TV crews that are watching the village.
This novel is the second in the series set in and around the village of Duncul.
367 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2022
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March 18, 2022
Calvinists, Anarchists and a Dutch eco-extremist intent on rewilding the area with wolves cluster round the small village of Duncul, where Afghan war veteran Eamon Ansgar lives alone in the castle by the Minch. A violent murder leads to a police investigation from outside, and the village is already attracting media attention for an alternative political convention soon to be held. Only Eamon suspects how murky the swirling currents of culture and counter-culture riddling the peninsula are. What are the three South African divers looking for at the bottom of the sea? Duncal has inadvertently become the epicentre of international activity and there is more trouble brewing. 'The Purified' is a gripping, intelligent thriller which races the reader to its spectacular conclusion.
March 8, 2022
The long awaited sequel to Errant Blood, this crime novel follows Eamon at his happiest – and very soon at his worst. With the government still letting down its citizens and leaving a frustrated Eamon a victim of both his past and his fate, C.F Peterson carves out a story that is as page-turning as its predecessor but even more haunting in its bleak, mystic Scottish Highland settings as more devastating bodies of truths are found in the waters of The Minch, threatening all who witness its excavation.
Eamon is a sympathetic protagonist who grapples with his past as much as he struggles to process the now – but time to come to terms with his traumas is not an option as social, political, local and metaphorical threats all point towards him on the shores of his new home where he is trying to find peace. Like any piece of crime fiction, peace doesn’t last long for the characters within, but Peterson’s writing is gritty, sensitive and vivid as they pinpoint the hope for their protagonist, but also the fear of heading down a truth and death-ridden path that you cannot return from; not least in the brilliantly-written murk and marvel of the Scottish Highlands.
Eamon is a sympathetic protagonist who grapples with his past as much as he struggles to process the now – but time to come to terms with his traumas is not an option as social, political, local and metaphorical threats all point towards him on the shores of his new home where he is trying to find peace. Like any piece of crime fiction, peace doesn’t last long for the characters within, but Peterson’s writing is gritty, sensitive and vivid as they pinpoint the hope for their protagonist, but also the fear of heading down a truth and death-ridden path that you cannot return from; not least in the brilliantly-written murk and marvel of the Scottish Highlands.
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