
Burning Secrets is book 2 in the Scottish Mysteries series Strontian a village on Ardnamurchan Peninsula is inhabited by mining folk & crofters eking out a living from the unforgiving land & turning a blind eye to the smugglers who plague the coast A bag of bones is pulled out of the water; the assistant to Gustav Wengler eccentric owner of the lead mines is brutally murdered; what is the connection? & what do either have to do with the sundial in Ockle churchyard & the collection of monuments on Wengler's island known locally as the White Cathedral? Sholto Mc Kay & Brogar Finn of the Pan-European Mining Company
- in pursuit of a potentially valuable mineral from the Strontian mines
- begin their own investigations unaware their discoveries will tear more than one life apart