Inspector Torquil McKinnon was devastated to discover that his best friend Constable Ewan McPhee was missing and presumed drowned. Then after the death of a crofter in a climbing accident, a
dog was poisoned, and a body was discovered face down in a rock pool, he began to suspect that there was a killer on the loose. Could all this somehow be connected with the controversial
building of wind towers which enraged the local crafting community and worried the conservation group? It would take all Torquil's skills to unravel the mystery to put everyone's mind at
rest.