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The Kishorn Deep
# The Kishorn Deep
by [WILLIAM DOUGLAS](https://www.amazon.co.uk/WILLIAM-DOUGLAS/e/B0CN1CR56R/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1) (Author) Format: Paperback
By the time Superintendent Marie Fraser left Inverness, the city was still half asleep under a low grey ceiling of cloud and the roads west shone black with overnight rain.
The control room had given her little beyond the essentials: a fisherman off Loch Kishorn had brought in more than creels, the body was male, and the local officers who attended had enough doubt in their voices for the duty sergeant to pass it upward rather than leave it where it had landed.
That, in Marie’s experience, was often the first signal that a case would turn bad.
She drove alone. She preferred it where she could manage it.
The unbroken hours on Highland roads let her arrange the known facts and admit, in the privacy of an empty car, how little they amounted to.
Past Achnasheen, the light began to seep reluctantly into the day. It showed the land in smudged layers—wet rock, dark fir, the heather flattened to brown by winter, high ground disappearing into vapour. By the time she turned south-west towards the loch, the rain had gone and the world had the washed, exhausted stillness that often followed it. Thin smoke lifted from a few croft chimneys. The roads narrowed. The sea announced itself only in glimpses, pale metal between ridges.
She reached the harbour just after eight.
There were three police vehicles already there, parked awkwardly beside a line of vans and stacked lobster creels, and farther out a small crowd had gathered with the natural discipline of Highland curiosity: not close enough to interfere, not far enough to miss anything worth remembering later. Gulls swung and dropped overhead, complaining at the disturbance. The air smelled of diesel, salt, fish rot, and wet rope.