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  1. Cover
  2. Time for the Dead
  3. Dedication page
  4. Map
  5. Epigraph page
  6. Prologue
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  91. Epilogue
  92. Acknowledgements
  93. About the Author
  94. By Lin Anderson

What Sergeant MacDonald and the soon-to-arrive Major Investigation Team needed now was to concentrate on what they believed was a murder enquiry. As McNab had said, Paul Watson hadn’t been on Skye to view the scenery. Nor was it likely he’d fallen willingly from Kilt Rock.

The five-strong group of medics would complete their survival training and leave the island. If one of them had been the injured party from the birch woods, Rhona would never know. The thought should have pleased her, but she found it did not.

It was still a forensic mystery that she hadn’t solved.

As she trudged along behind the dog, a buzzing sound from above drew Rhona’s eyes skyward. The drone was clearly visible and, a few yards further ahead, the figure controlling it was already being greeted by Blaze.

So this, she presumed, would be Archie McKinnon who’d caught her earlier trip with Blaze on camera. Rhona assumed a smile and went to greet him.

‘Archie?’

‘Aye?’

Rhona held out her hand. ‘Rhona MacLeod. You captured Blaze and myself on camera a few days ago.’

His face lit up. ‘So you’re Dr MacLeod. Very pleased to meet you.’ He bent to rub Blaze’s ears. ‘Your forensic assistant and I know one another very well.’ He gave her a quizzical look. ‘You out on another job or still on the last one?’

Rhona didn’t see any harm in telling him, now that they knew the medics were all accounted for.

‘I was hoping to meet up with the female medic who was camping in the plantation. Blaze was tracking her, or I think he was.’

‘Blaze doesn’t get things like that wrong. What does the girl look like?’

Rhona gave him a brief description of Seven.

‘Aye, she was here. Caught the 56 bus for Dunvegan and Glendale.’

‘Did you speak to her?’ Rhona said.

‘Just passed the time of day.’

‘She didn’t say where she was headed exactly?’

‘No, but she was dressed for walking and had a sizable backpack. Did you need to speak to her?’

Rhona dodged the question and said, ‘We met up yesterday. We were worried then about her fellow medics. They were out on survival training and there was the body on the beach.’

Archie nodded. ‘Aye, I saw the Twitter messages. But they’ve identified the body, so they’re not worried about the soldiers now.’

‘I only learned that on my way here,’ Rhona said in surprise. ‘News travels fast on Skye.’

‘Like lightning. No doubt the big boys will be over from the mainland now.’

‘Why do you say that?’ Rhona asked, wondering if Archie knew even more than she did.