The Blackhouse: A Novel by Carole Johnstone. Scribner, 2023. Adult mystery. When Maggie McKay was five years old, she and her mother went to a small island in Scotland. Maggie announced to everyone that a man on Kilmeray had been murdered. The upset and turmoil the little girl caused in the village was enormous. Twenty years later, her mother has just died and Maggie, a journalist, returns to find out what really happened when she was a child. Many of the people are still there and resent the opening of closed matters. Can Maggie find out what happened without putting herself in danger? Can she manage being bipolar and deal with her own grief? Might she even find love? The storms rage in more than the sea!
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