The Empty Croft; A Hebridean Mystery: Every Croft Keeps its Stories, This One Kept the Dead (The Hebridean Mysteries Book 4)
About
Mairi Stewart returns to her late parents’ croft on a remote Hebridean island expecting nothing more than dust, paperwork, and memories she would rather leave buried.
Instead, she finds a hidden box, a photograph of her father beside a body, and the first sign that her family has been keeping a terrible secret since 1973.
As old loyalties begin to crack, Mairi uncovers a dark link between the Stewarts, the powerful MacAuley family, and two brothers whose disappearance was never truly explained. But the more she learns, the clearer it becomes that the croft is hiding far more than one old crime — and that the truth may change everything she believed about her parents, her home, and herself.
Set among the wild beauty of Scotland’s western isles, The Empty Croft is an atmospheric mystery of buried guilt, family silence, and the cost of protecting the wrong people for far too long.