Secrets of the Soil - Willow Reeves returns home when her father discovers a body in the sand, reminding her of her earlier life on a commune when she was growing up
The Writer in Residence - Jackie Tait returns to Shetland to discover the truth about an apparent suicide many years previously (Jimmy Perez makes an appearance at the end of the story)
The spinster - As Joan does her knitting she recalls events that occurred when the miners first came to the island (a Jimmy Perez story)
Stranded - A young student meets a young girl at a party, but who is she really?
Smoothmothers - Three people from the south spend the evening at a pub - only one survives. When Jimmy Perez investigates a story from the past is revealed
Hector's Other Woman - When Vera and her father visit Holy Island, her father slops away for an encounter with another woman. Thirty-five years later Vera and the other woman meet.
The Pirate - When artist, Maureen Dance, noticed the young girl wearing the pirate hat she kew that the past had returned to the island.
Stranded in Skokholm by Lynne Chitty (featuring George and Mollie Palmer-Jones) - Thge discovery of a postcard on the ground produces questions about the owner of the card and the person who sent it.
A collection of miscellaneous short (sometimes very short) stories set in the northern islands of Scotland.
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