Ostrov temnoty – Aubrey Daniel (2024)

Winter in the Scottish Orkneys. Six hours of daylight. And darkness favors the murderer. ***** When a storm washes the skeletons of two long-missing teenagers onto the rocky shores of Orkney, it marks an intense beginning to a new career for reporter Freya. Fate has handed her a topic to investigate for the local weekly just after she returned to her native islands, determined to rediscover herself after a painful departure from Glasgow. ***** In her investigation, Freya is to collaborate with seasoned senior reporter Gill. Although her autism spectrum disorder makes interactions with her and others challenging, it soon becomes clear that being different can be an advantage in practice: like Sherlock Holmes, Freya perceives things in unexpected details and connections. ***** However, she returned home at the worst possible time. The horrific discovery of the remains of young lovers has reopened old wounds and sheds light on a past that no one in the closed island community intends to admit to the world. Freya's obsession with uncovering the truth transforms her journalistic routine into a game of cat and mouse in darkness so thick it could be sliced. Each new secret revealed threatens her work and family, and draws the perpetrator's attention to the next victim. Freya thus faces the urgent question of whether...