Book description
April 1808: A storm sweeps across the islands of the Baltic Sea,
destroying the village of Lower Slaughter as it goes. Into this ruined
land comes missing-persons finder Whilbert Stroop, on the trail of a
lost miniature library and its protector. Almost crossing his path is
Griselda Liit, a refugee from Lower Slaughter, carrying her father's
secrets back to the island of her birth. Behind Griselda, in the
shadows, a strange figure follows for a very different reason. Stroop's
investigation will lead him from the flooded valley to sinister
printworks, and to the strange island archipelago of Saaremaa in the
Baltic Sea. Once there, he must unravel the increasingly tangled strands
of past and present that surround the islands, and delve into a
mysterious world of ancient Brotherhoods, insurrection, piracy, and
death. Clio Gray was born in Yorkshire, brought up in Devon and now
lives in Scotland where she works in her local library. She has won
prizes for many of her short stories, including the prestigious 2006
Scotsman & Orange Short Story Award for 'I Should Have Listened
Harder', which can be downloaded from the Scotsman website.
