The Grave Song

The wicker coffin remained upended where it had been dropped headfirst in the open grave. But it was the pale arm reaching from beneath – fingers curled around the woven edge – that froze the mourners where they stood.In the rain-soaked Scottish Highlands, Detective Inspector James Corstorphine arrives at what should have been a simple funeral. Janet Knight wanted only to rest among the birdsong and wildflowers she loved. Instead, her burial becomes a crime scene when a young woman’s body is discovered in the grave.Questioning the fractured family – a volatile soldier son, estranged religious siblings, and a healer who promises passage to the next realm – Corstorphine uncovers a devastating connection. Janet’s daughter Mary vanished from these same woods over ten years ago, leaving behind a mother who never stopped searching.With forensics threatening to unearth every body in the woodland cemetery, Corstorphine must navigate family betrayals to discover why someone chose Janet’s grave