A man stands bewildered on a deserted beach on the Isle of Harris. He cannot remember who he is. The only clue to his identity is a folded map of a path named the Coffin Road.
A detective from Lewis sits aboard a boat, filled with doubt. DS George Gunn knows that a corpse has been discovered on a remote rock twenty miles offshore. He does not know if he has what it takes to uncover how and why.
Peter May brings murder back to the Outer Hebrides.