It was on a beautiful morning in June 1973 that eleven-year-old Miller McAllister’s world fell apart … That was the weekend that police found the remains of three missing teenage girls on the tiny Scottish island of Fidra. And that was the weekend that Miller’s father, Douglas, was arrested for triple murder. Thirty-two years later, Douglas has died in prison and Miller returns home after decades of self-imposed exile. The McAllister family always maintained Douglas’s innocence – as steadfastly as Miller maintained his guilt. But when Miller is given the legal archive and a letter his father wrote to him just days before his death, suddenly everything looks less clear. To excavate the past and recover the truth, Miller immerses himself in the terrible events of over thirty years ago and his family’s darkest hour. Was nothing quite as it seemed on that fateful June day? Could Douglas McAllister have been innocent after all? And if he didn’t kill the girls … who did?
Sue Walker is a television journalist. She started out in her native Edinburgh, eventually moving to London to work in BBC TV's News and Current Affairs Department. For the past fifteen years, Sue has concentrated on documentaries specialising in crime investigative work and miscarriages of justice, mainly for Channel 4. Sue now lives on the Sussex Coast. The Dead Pool is her third novel, following The Reunion and The Reckoning (both available in Penguin paperback).
