The Reckoning

Death is not always the final reckoning…
Thirty years ago, eleven-year-old Miller McAllister’s father, Douglas, was locked up for killing three teenage girls on the tiny Scottish island of Fidra. Now Douglas is dead and Miller-always believing in his father’s guilt – returns home to bury him and his crimes forever.
But Miller’s father has one last surprise for his son: along with the legal papers concerning the case there is a letter written by Douglas on his deathbed. A letter that turns Miller’s world upsid-down. Was he wrong about his father’s guilt all these years? Was Douglas the victim of a miscarriage of justice? And if so, who was the real killer – and where is he now?
‘A decade of post-mortem reports, witness statements and knocking on the doors of murder victims has put Walker in touch with the darker side of human relationships’ Sunday Times
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