The Silent Glen

A Scottish Highlands Murder Mystery

She testified. She hid. They found her anyway.

A morning walk. A remote Highland glen. A woman's body, still clutching her mobile with a final desperate message: "He found me."

Emma Sutherland was a yoga instructor in Fort William—quiet, private, harmless. But Emma Sutherland wasn't her real name. She was Angela Morrison, a protected witness who testified against an organised crime network three years ago. The government promised her safety. They promised her a new life. They promised no one would find her.

They lied.

Now Detective Inspector Sarah Lynch must solve not just a murder, but a betrayal. How did a protected witness die in Sarah's own town? Who penetrated security meant to keep witnesses invisible? And who paid £50,000 to have Emma strangled in an isolated glen whilst rain fell and ravens circled overhead?

As Sarah investigates, she uncovers a conspiracy that stretches from Edinburgh crime families to Fort William's quiet streets. Emma's ex-fiancé, who never stopped searching. A lawyer who seduced her to confirm her location. An enforcer who killed her with professional precision. All working for an organisation that won't tolerate witnesses living.

Emma was six weeks pregnant when she died. She didn't even know.

Sarah will make sure her killers pay for both lives destroyed—even when the investigation exposes witness protection failures that could collapse dozens of ongoing cases, even when powerful voices demand silence. Even when justice requires exposing the very systems meant to protect the vulnerable.

A gripping British crime thriller about betrayal, witness protection failure, and one detective's refusal to let victims be forgotten.

Book 3 in the Detective Sarah Lynch Mysteries—where systems fail, but detectives don't.