An Island Burning

"A twisty mystery set on Mull, the island being a character in itself" Ian Rankin

"One of my favourite songwriters of all time" Irvine Welsh

"MacIntyre always writes with a clarity of style" The Scotsman

Burns Night, January 2000. In the early days of the new millennium, two burnt-out cars are discovered on a barren glen on the isle of Mull. Inside them, only teeth and bones.

Meanwhile, Ivor Punch is busy policing a protest when he meets a strange visitor purporting to be Robert Louis Stevenson, who speaks of an island that appears only twice a century. As smoke fills the air and bodies are discovered, Sergeant Punch searches for the crux of the mystery by looking to the past.

Amid peculiar forces at play, a freshly moored ferry full of curious characters and a Burns Night play to set the evening alight, he needs to decipher what is real or imagined—before the island falls into chaos.

An Island Burning is the second book in The Mull Mysteries series from multi-award-winning author and musician, Colin MacIntyre, aka Mull Historical Society. And this time, for Sgt Ivor Punch, it's personal.