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Blood in the Glens: True Crimes from the Scottish Highlands

Jean McLennan

Start date: January 24, 2020

Finish date: February 29, 2020

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A thorough account of murder investigations in the Scottish Highlands, this book gave me a new appreciation for the difficulties facing authorities in a geographically challenging, sparsely populated terrain, where the places to hide a body are many and the resources for finding it are few. Walking tours in the western Highlands seemed often to be almost invitations for violent assault--so sad when a darkened human heart is so completely unmoved by the breathtaking beauty without and focuses ins ...more

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