About the book: 2014 / On instructions from Scotland Yard, Inspector Ian Rutledge goes to Scotland to search for traces of the missing Elinor Gray, the daughter of high-ranking parents. A local constable asks him to help investigate a strange case against Fiona MacDonald. Fiona is accused of murdering a young woman, believed to be Elinor Gray, and kidnapping her child. Rutledge recognizes the accused as the fiancée of his dead friend Hamish MacLeod. In memory of him, he vows to save Fiona from the gallows…