The Poacher's Daughter

A dead eagle is never just a dead eagle.When Wildlife Crime Officer Rowan Munro is called to a remote Cairngorm estate before dawn, she expects a routine poisoning case. What she finds is a dead golden eagle - and a dead gamekeeper lying fifty metres away in a frozen burn.The estate is owned by a Luxembourg holding company. The land is managed hard. And the evidence points to a systematic campaign to clear every raptor from twelve thousand acres of Scottish highland.But as Rowan builds her case across the October plateau, a name surfaces in a fourteen-year-old evidence log - a name she has been avoiding her entire career. Because the man connected to this land, this crime, and this cover-up is her father.Alasdair Munro is a poacher. He always has been. Rowan has spent her adult life on the opposite side of that line.Now she is not sure the line was ever where she thought it was.Set in the dramatic landscape of the Cairngorms, The Poacher's Daughter is the first book in the Rowan Munro Mystery series - atmospheric Scottish crime fiction for readers of Ann Cleeves, Peter May and M.C. Beaton.