Dimensions
129 x 198 x 18mm
They found Olivia's body the night the blackbirds died. Now Alex is determined to find answers. On December 31st, 2010, the night 5,000 blackbirds drop dead and descend like a dark blanket over a small American town in the sleepy state of Arkansas, the body of a teenage girl is discovered battered and abandoned on a Shetland beach.Alex McCarthy, her fourteen year old sister, is left to pick up the pieces after the brutal discovery and soon feels the burden of carrying her family through this tragedy.Committed to finding the killer, who she is convinced still hides within the walls of the subarctic village on Shetland, she partners with the assigned detective. Dishevelled, sometimes intoxicated, and harbouring his own demons, Detective Inspector Birkens is eager to close the case and get on with the start of his retirement. But this will be his toughest case yet, and Alex might be able to teach him some lessons along the way too.
