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1715. Jonas Flynt, ex-soldier and reluctant member of the Company of Rogues, a shady intelligence group run by ruthless spymaster Nathaniel Charters, is ordered to recover a missing document. Its contents could prove devastating in the wrong hands. On her deathbed, the late Queen Anne may have promised the nation to her half-brother James, the Old Pretender, rather than the new king, George I. But the will has been lost. It may decide the fate of the nation.

London, 1716. Justice Geoffrey Dumont has been found dead at the base of St Paul’s cathedral, and a young male sex-worker, Sam Yates, has been taken into custody for the murder. Yates denies all charges, claiming he had received a message to meet the judge at the exact time of death. The young man is a friend of courtesan Belle St Clair, and she asks Flynt to investigate. As Sam endures the horrors of Newgate prison, they must do everything in their power to uncover the truth and save an innocent life, before the bodies begin to pile up.

When reporter Rebecca Connolly is told of Roddie Drummond's return to the island of Stoirm she senses a story. Fifteen years before he was charged with the murder of his lover, Mhairi. When he was found Not Proven, Roddie left the island. Now he has returned for his mother's funeral - and it will spark an explosion of violence. Rebecca joins forces with local photographer Chaz Wymark to dig into the secrets surrounding Mhairi's death, and her mysterious last words of Thunder Bay, where, according to local lore, the souls of the dead set off into the afterlife.

När kroppen av en man i höglandsklänning från 1700-talet upptäcks på platsen för slaget vid Culloden tar journalisten Rebecca Connolly upp historien i tidningen hon arbetar på. Samtidigt har en film om Jakobitupproren 1745 retat upp en högergrupp som har kopplingar till en annan grupp som misstänks stå bakom dödshot och falska mjältbrandsleveranser till både Holyrood Palace och Downing Street.

När reportern Rebecca Connolly får höra talas om Roddie Drummonds återkomst till ön Stoirm anar hon en story. Femton år tidigare misstänktes Roddie ha mördat sin älskade, Mhairi. Bevisen räckte inte för fällande dom, och Roddie försvann. Bara hans syster visste vart. När hans mamma nu ska begravas är han tillbaka – med en explosion av hat, bitterhet och våld som följd.

Auf dem historischen Schlachtfeld von Culloden wird eine Leiche gefunden, in der Kluft eines Highlanders und von einem Schwert durchbohrt. Zur selben Zeit befindet sich die nahegelegene Stadt Inverness in Aufruhr: Die Bewohner protestieren gegen den Zuzug eines Sexualstraftäters. An vorderster Front stehen die Burkes, eine Familie mit zweifelhaftem Ruf, doch die Kontrolle über den wütenden Mob geht ihnen mehr und mehr an einen gefährlichen Rechtspopulisten verloren.

Eine aufstrebende Reporterin, ein ungeklärter Mordfall und eine schottische Insel voller Geheimnisse. Als die junge Journalistin Rebecca Connolly von Roddie Drummonds Rückkehr auf die Insel Stoirm erfährt, wittert sie eine Geschichte: Fünfzehn Jahre sind vergangen, seitdem Drummond wegen des Mordes an seiner Geliebten unter Anklage stand. Aufgrund mangelnder Beweise endete das Verfahren damals mit einem Freispruch. Roddie verließ die eingeschworene Inselgemeinschaft und verschwand. Nun kehrt er für die Beerdigung seiner Mutter zurück - und reißt damit alte Wunden wieder auf.

Da journalisten Rebecca Connolly modtager et tip om en nyhedshistorie på den skotske ø Stoirm, vækkes hendes nysgerrighed. Femten år tidligere blev øboen Roddie Drummond anklaget og siden frifundet for mordet på sin store kærlighed, Mhairi. Derefter forlod han øen i al hast. Nu vender han tilbage til Stoirm, og det puster liv i gammelt had og bitterhed. Sammen med fotografen Chaz begynder Rebecca at grave i fortiden. For hvad skete der den nat for femten år siden? Hvorfor har Rebeccas egen far altid skyet øen?

Seit zehn Jahren sitzt der junge James Stewart wegen des brutalen Mordes an seinem Geliebten, dem Anwalt und Politiker Murdo Maxwell, im Gefängnis – doch eine neue Aussage weckt Zweifel an seiner Schuld. Unterstützer, die von seiner Unschuld überzeugt sind, behängen bei einer Protestaktion die historische Grabstätte seines Namensvetters James Stewart of the Glen mit Bannern. Die Verurteilung des ehemaligen Clanführers durch die britischen Regierungstruppen gilt in den Highlands noch heute als großer Justizirrtum. Geschieht auch dem jungen James Stewart Unrecht?

Christopher Templeton is a lawyer whose conscience troubles him. He knows many of the secrets of The Fellowship, the shadowy group profiting from the civil unrest in the nation, and has intimated to the Company of Rogues that he is willing to share them. The problem is, he has vanished. Jonas Flynt – thief, gambler, killer – still recovering from a duel with death upon the frozen Thames, is tasked with finding him. The trail takes him from the dark slums of London to a quiet village in the north of England, where all is not as it seems.

When banners proclaiming the innocence of James Stewart spring up at the gravesite of his famous namesake—a clan leader who was falsely accused of murder and hanged almost three hundred years ago in a miscarriage of justice that still resonates—investigative reporter Rebecca Connolly smells a story.

When a man in eighteenth-century Highland dress is found dead on the site of the Battle of Culloden, where Bonnie Prince Charlie led his forces to a rout seared into Scottish memory, Rebecca Connolly takes up the case for the Chronicle. A controversial film about the rebellion and battle is being shot nearby, and it has drawn the ire of the right-wing nationalist movement Spirit of the Gael. Is there some link between the murder—the weapon used to impale the man leaves no doubt it was murder—and Spirit of the Gael or the shadowy militant group New Dawn?

When reporter Rebecca Connolly gets a tip that suspected murderer Roddie Drummond will be returning to the island of Stoirm, she smells a story. Though never convicted in the death of his girlfriend Mhairi, Drummond is still guilty in the eyes of many islanders. Defying her editor, Rebecca joins forces with local photographer Chazz Wymark to dig into the mystery surrounding Mhairi's death and her unexplained last words, "Thunder Bay"—the secluded spot on the west coast of the island where, according to local lore, the souls of the dead set off into the afterlife.

Something scared Nuala Flaherty to death. When her body is found in the center of a pentagram on a lonely moor in the shadow of Ben Shee mountain, Rebecca is determined to find out what killed her. Was her death caused by supernatural means or is there a more down-to-earth explanation? The body was discovered on the Island of Stoirm, about which Rebecca has some complicated feelings. Her beloved father, a career policeman, came from there, but he fled the island's and his own family's dark history, and Rebecca herself had a brush with death while pursuing a story there.