Nigel Code

The Gate in the Shadows

Is there some truth behind ghost stories?

David Hammond is hired by disgraced former government minister Dan Forsyth to visit the remote Scottish islands of St Kilda. There he finds traces of an island’s past, but it seems a long way to go for very little, so what was the true reason for taking him there? Then Forsyth disappears, and the police want answers, but David knows nothing of the stories of rituals and buried bodies that fill the newspapers.

As the only witness to what may have happened there, DI John Ferrie needs David to tell him everything he can remember, but there is something Ferrie is not telling David.

Before leaving for Scotland, David begins to have nightmares, somehow connected to this journey. He suspects this is a memory from a childhood best forgotten, from when he visited these islands as a boy, but deep down, he knows it is something much worse.

A haunting mystery that takes the reader on a journey through old beliefs on the islands, beliefs that may still hold true.