The final book in the crime trilogy set on the Isle of Lewis, which began with "The Blackhouse" and continued with "The Lewis Man". Fin Macleod investigates illegal game-hunting taking place on the island, and reunites with an old friend from his teens, poacher Whistler Macaskill. But when this reunion takes a sinister turn and Fin puts together the fractured pieces of the past, he realises that revealing the truth could destroy the future.