The Drowned Glen

They said the glen was empty when the water came. An old woman spent a lifetime proving they lied.

Forensic cartographer Iris Calder reconstructs the truth of places for a living. So when a letter arrives from a seventy-four-year-old woman in Wick — carrying a death toll no official record will admit — Iris follows it north to Glen Sennach: a Highland valley deliberately flooded for a reservoir in 1966, with a house, and thirteen people, still forty feet beneath the surface.

They were signed off as evacuated. The paperwork is flawless. Only the loch — and one survivor who never stopped counting — say otherwise. To prove what the water has hidden for six decades, Iris and her sister must raise a drowned glen from the two things a flood can never move: a skyline and a river.

The Drowned Glen is a haunting, atmospheric Scottish crime novel — Book Two of the Iris Calder series, for readers of Tana French, Ann Cleeves, and Jane Harper.