https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/events daily 0.75 2025-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518336-CNG1RCPM652T0SFBB9TS/1+procession+copy.jpg Events Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Denise Mina leading the fiery procession through Stirling. Bloody Scotland, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518481-9BPNMIL9GXF97YZNZ7X6/1+women%27s+suff+proc.jpg Events Dressed up for ‘A Guid Cause’, the centenary re-enactment of the Women’s Suffrage procession in Edinburgh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518344-7KULWZ6YI13PBIKTGSGE/2+inspector+faro+play+copy.jpg Events Reading one of Alanna Knight’s Inspector Faro plays with (from left) Doug Skelton, Abir Mukarjee, me, Harley Coben and Gordon Brown. Bloody Scotland, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518497-O9B1RJG9AVWIXQTWLW0Q/2+women%27s+suffrage+launch+Nov+10.JPG Events My first ever book signing in our fantastic indy bookshop. The Shetland Times Ltd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518356-NXHBCRI0GQXO5LAGOQ21/3+the+winning+team+copy.jpg Events Crime writing’s finest pose with their trophy after Scotland won the Scotland vs England football match. Bloody Scotland 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518476-QCLJ9TQE2A6F2DGN7ELF/3+RYA+Scotland+Boatshow%2C+Largs%2C+with+Luke+Patience+Feb+13.jpg Events With Luke Patience, 420 sailing Olympic medallist, at the RYA Scotland Boat Show, Largs, 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518351-OU7D70ZMVMB1RAFRDM8E/4+john+anderson+my+jo+copy.jpg Events Singing Burns at the Crime at the Coo party, Bloody Scotland 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518486-KF51GX0O1OHO7U6K3EY9/4+DOAL+in+Waterstons.jpg Events A thrilling moment for a new author – I’m in Waterstones! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518378-P0LTB5L2BXJ2JDR1HLCS/5+welcome+to+toronto%21+copy.jpg Events Yay, I’m in Toronto! Bouchercon 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518507-WZ5PLFRFZIEBI8EJQ73Q/5+ulverston+library+copy.jpg Events With Jean Briggs and Martin Edwards at an event in Ulverston Library, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518366-IZ92NQ4IGNL0CSFYL3K4/6+in+Toronto.jpg Events https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518516-OJG092CVSISARXC0RKLA/6+Izzy+and+I+jane+austen.JPG Events The Westside Writers combined with the Shetland Library for an event commemorating the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, July 2017. We had food from period recipes, fun activities like a vote for the sexiest TV/Film Mr Darcy and of course costume! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518403-J9FKF1D44G5IQ367TXEX/7+bouchercon+sign+copy.jpg Events The Sheraton Hotel, Toronto, even had an indoors waterfall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518502-L52X2KV1HUW7UDHRFA0S/7+blackwell+2+copy.jpg Events At Blackwell’s, Edinburgh, with Lin Anderson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518396-U17OH67H8PHHM3PNXVE9/8+desserts%21+copy.jpg Events No, crime festivals aren’t just an excuse to eat cake. Bouchercon, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518492-7H6S7PLL15O4ELSFZWUS/8+cutting+ribbon+2+may+19.jpg Events This made me feel like a filmstar or royalty – cutting the ribbon for the opening of DrAl’s Reading Hut in Michaelswood, Aith., helped by his two grandchildren. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518391-I24625XARFYII4PBDU3J/9+uk+panel+all+copy.jpg Events Showing off my Shetland jumper on the UK crime panel. Bouchercon, 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518511-6SF6KJ1X5BZG25ITXW9S/9+Disw+launch+2+copy.jpg Events Dressed up as Third Mate Cass for the launch of Death in Shetland Waters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518361-EFLR78Q30EKFMOC8JB3E/10+us+copy.JPG Events Some of our writers’ group at Shetland Noir, 2015: me, Nat Hall, Barbara Fraser, June Ross-Smith, Doug Forrest and Beth Fullerton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518385-MI312EKT3ZMNA9XVBEDF/11+mm1+copy.JPG Events I had the fun of playing my own heroine Cass in our murder mystery. Shetland Noir, November 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518373-4K12YW9IQ1SAI5ZOEMCZ/12+Stuart%2C+Matthew%2C+Donald+copy.jpg Events Stuart MacBride, Matthew Wright and organiser Donald Anderson getting ready to kill! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518410-XBH4XJPTEKFDBN4I2KCP/13+conf+dinner+copy.JPG Events The conference dinner at St Hilda’s, Oxford, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518415-SAC0F9842MV47MINYEV2/14+all+singers+copy.jpg Events A welcome from First Nation singers, Left Coast Crime, 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518457-WXQKJ50CKO9I4Y9VWE4D/15+pool+reflections+copy.jpg Events A lovely way to start the morning – and there was a hot tub to finish the day in too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452518447-13S2EE9OSNHVULBJPYL6/16+vancouver+police+museum.jpg Events Crime conferences often include a ‘special interest’ tour – these are exhibits in the Vancouver Police Museum. 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Our family summers were spent in a remote cottage on a Highland sealoch. This boat was my playpen – put me in there with a book, my mother said, and I was perfectly happy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430628-H55NHW0W0D41Y8XP7FU6/2+Lady+Blue+1.jpeg Spare Time At seventeen I got a Graduate sailing dinghy, and capsized all over the Firth of Forth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430672-KZEUYO0W14EMPJF79W85/3+me+at+helm+of+Karima.jpg Spare Time Now I have the original of Cass’s Khalida – my own Karima S. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430656-KCMG601HWIKYT6B9R6B1/4+sunset+sailing.JPG Spare Time I take her out as much as I can through the summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430651-3UAXVBWE8W2GH6AXXUKI/5+men+in+tights+copy.jpg Spare Time Winter is drama time, either pantomime at Christmas (I’m behind the false beard)... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430677-P6RIXD6EMYR12Q8V6Y95/6+am+dram.JPG Spare Time ...or our March County Drama Festival. This play was my sailing play, Triangles – my friend Izzy, in white, played the boat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430690-5YJIR5X3XYAIX5WAYMO1/6b+Women+of+Troy.jpg Spare Time As Andromache, in Women of Troy, by Euripides, saying goodbye to her son, who is about to be killed by the Greeks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430661-VTKIYGS3Y20IV7AOMXJ1/7+me+aeroplane.jpg Spare Time This was our silliest play ever. I’m the aeroplane, with sound effects. Nyeeeaaaah ... acka acka acka, bang! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430682-5VDZPCH46B5VJC4U4KQQ/8+flute.JPG Spare Time I’ve only been learning a couple of years, but I enjoy it hugely. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430608-H0L758RHZS6LOI5CU4DY/9+audience+2.JPG Spare Time My audience has its lunch, then stays on to listen and cheep along. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430623-OCKSLOUL3XT3BCY6JRGM/9b+learning+norsk.JPG Spare Time My other learning is Norwegian, online – I managed not too badly in my last visit to Bergen, and sometimes even did a whole conversation without the Norwegian person I was speaking to breaking into perfect English. It’s very like Shetland dialect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430591-LEZQ83335JZBJ8A0HE7M/10+library.JPG Spare Time I read English at University, and am working my way through the classics as well as enjoying modern fiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430574-KSWI2XZ0M5EH8Z1Y12AG/11+parish+picnic.JPG Spare Time I was one of the musicians at St Margaret’s Church, Shetland, for many years. The guitar still gets brought out for our annual parish picnic and Mass on a former Catholic site. Here we’re in the ruins of St Mary’s, Bressay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430584-KFM4DZMGDPL9VFDCOIIU/12+first+garden+mass+in+Sh.JPG Spare Time Our garden hosted the first Shetland Mass in lockdown, once two households were allowed to get together outdoors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430579-0MV49RJ59DEFYCTS3UN8/13+me+peerie+shop+copy.JPG Spare Time We take Christmas seriously, with a special shopping expedition into Lerwick – and a break at Cass’s favourite café, the Peerie Shop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430596-0ZRHOMJSIJAJRK44WYEF/14+christmas.JPG Spare Time Christmas lunch – duck, followed by home made Christmas pudding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430603-SSKT391MI0T0TCFONFXK/15+bins+out+in+ballgowns.JPG Spare Time Lockdown fun – one of my contributions to a FB page called ‘Put your bins out in a Ballgown.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430633-W424773D7YY9UP2QK2N0/16+magnus.JPG Spare Time No account of life at the Manse would be complete without our animals. This is Magnus, our senior boy, and therefore Top Cat, posing imposingly on his peat stack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430641-YARRTAOPD89L7GX8XVAV/17+genie.JPG Spare Time Because her mother spoiled her when she was a small, fat kitten, Génie expected to be Top Cat on the death of the former Top Cat. She’s an OCD timekeeper: brush at 06.30, immediately after the alarm clock; breakfast at 08.00; dinner at 1800; dreamies at 20.30 precisely, and people herded towards bed from 21.30 onwards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430667-CV6IM856TAO3NSZSX5AK/18+genie+my+study.jpg Spare Time She also likes to keep an eye on my word count from the top of the study bookcase. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430617-4A7VYAO6O2424D7W8SSJ/19+miss+m+garden.JPG Spare Time This is the real queen of the household, Génie’s mother and her mistress’s special cat, Miss Matty. She didn’t even bother to join in the vying for First Bowl; she knew she’d still get fish from her mistress’s own plate. It’s the gentle paw laid on my knee, the expression that trusts I’ll share, that does it every time... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452430613-XZ50WRPMXTHNF3ZSX6VH/20+milla.JPG Spare Time We used to have two ponies, and when the older one died everyone said, ‘Milla will get used to being on her own.’ Even with daily walks and brushing, she didn’t, so now she lives in a herd near Scalloway. We visit her every time we go to Lerwick, and take her saved-up apple cores and melon skins. It’s very strange being without a pony! – we do miss her. https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/land-adventures daily 0.75 2020-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444021-TNG4TJ2UBY38RA4X7JR1/1+cottage+low+tide+copy.JPG Land Adventures I fell in love with wild places as a child, spending every summer in a remote Highland loch. We still return for a week each year, to live without electricity or even an access road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444015-HAOXZVVF6TB5SXHK4MCZ/2+hind+close+up+copy.JPG Land Adventures There are no deer on Shetland, so seeing one is always exciting – especially this close up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444009-NH7O4MDOIYKNQ2O0K8H3/3+view+from+apt+copy.jpg Land Adventures I’d always wanted to go to Canada, and took Bouchercon, the big American crime festival which was being held in Toronto, as an excuse. We flew right to Vancouver and found our appartment had this view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444039-8I526EVM109S7S1B4T7C/4+dreaming+of+pacific+copy.jpg Land Adventures I loved Vancouver! We walked all over, including to Pacific Beach, where I dreamed of sailing oceans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444028-4M8PKJS4P4L4PBQJ3U1C/5+blue+heron+copy.jpg Land Adventures We saw wonderful wildlife, like this blue heron. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444034-XOJBQA9SDDEE2ARP2IKG/6+whale+1+copy.jpg Land Adventures We took a boat trip in the bay, and met up with this playful humpbacked whale – and don’t tell me his spraying the whole boat with very smelly blow was accidental. I could see him laughing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444058-1LGMP1D44BBD7IR7SJVO/7+trying+to+swallow+starfish+copy.jpg Land Adventures This starfish was still fighting back! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444045-WZZMH0D09J84FTV24V0L/8+waffle+copy.jpg Land Adventures The hotel had a cook-your-own-waffle machine – I loved that too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444073-MS1M5KPQVHY0HAGZLHWC/9+view+copy.jpg Land Adventures After that we went into the Rockies and stayed in a sumptuous log cabin with this view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444069-TH8SEZQ3K7I5ZQFDZHMO/10+primeval+forest+copy.jpg Land Adventures While my husband stayed indoors and composed music, I had three days of guided walks through this amazing forest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444063-MX5H9D64WWFOZBD47012/11+me+after+rafting+copy.jpg Land Adventures Damp but happy after rafting down the river in an inflatible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444052-5P15LJXG3E03KUM5V3OH/12+bears+1.jpg Land Adventures On our last evening we saw Grizzly bears. Yes, they really were this close - our guide had her hand ready on the pepper spray. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444099-EOGTRM5W2YFMFB7EHFYU/17+Sleeping+beauty+witch.jpeg Land Adventures My favourite panto role ever – the witch in Sleeping Beauty. Not only did I have full 18th century dress, with a hoop, but I also got to fly on a broomstick! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1600167894495-CCKECVYPDA7XD5L5P6XA/oliver.JPG Land Adventures I really enjoy taking part in musicals too. Here I am all dressed up for the pub chorus in Oliver! - the oom-pa-pa song. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444079-IKA0O574IYLG72KP6T4J/18+playing+film+star.JPG Land Adventures Our College has a film course, so I had fun playing film star for one of the students. I was also in a commercial film, Devil’s Gate – don’t blink in the bar scene, or you’ll miss me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444088-YRQ61UCMZNCASYVEDNDB/19+blue+lagoon1+copy.jpg Land Adventures Iceland was another adventure – I loved swimming in the Blue Lagoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444083-3LDZ60IJNJG5DSQ7IXEB/20+horse+copy.jpg Land Adventures I got the chance to meet Icelandic horses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444094-H3ZF04OSJY3LRWZ6MYHX/21+steam+1+copy.jpg Land Adventures The landscape in the south of the island had amazing colours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444109-761NX3D40BLN6W3KOK6G/22+view+from+balcony++copy.jpg Land Adventures A long weekend in Venice – the view from our balcony. I could have sat there all day watching the boats going past. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444123-XCPY3FNNC8P3393XQ8VS/23+La+Salute+Titian+Pentecost++copy.jpg Land Adventures Rather than queue for museums, we visited works of art in the churches they were painted for – this is Titian’s Pentecost, in La Salute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444103-PX6XOODWIKFPBFU6ZSM4/24+the+hands%21+copy.jpg Land Adventures The hotel next door had an art exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452444115-0UO9F4HDPPZFJD7PUZFU/25+u+lions+inspecting+hands+copy.jpg Land Adventures You can see exactly what these lions on the balcony above think of modern art! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1600161420601-YOE097LWF6AX6CPT4NY2/6+literary+tram.jpg Land Adventures My composer husband, Philip, wanted to record some of his music with an orchestra, and the cheapest place to do it was ... Brno! We had a wonderful weekend there. This is my favourite tram ever. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1600161410237-UBUN1CNMXBIZQKX8GBS8/8+puppets.jpg Land Adventures By way of time out we visited their wonderful puppetry museum - and yes, you get to play with the puppets, so I did. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1600161418008-SV4MH041XUTXNFA71BSX/9+brollies.jpg Land Adventures I loved the street art - so colourful. https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/contact daily 0.75 2020-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce435d6bea1ed00016ba287/1558964652247-5MWXNMFZVOPGE4TY6U2Q/MHeiderich_ReflexionenZwei-05-copy.jpg Contact https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/life-in-shetland daily 0.75 2020-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce435d6bea1ed00016ba287/1558964652247-5MWXNMFZVOPGE4TY6U2Q/MHeiderich_ReflexionenZwei-05-copy.jpg Life in Shetland https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/home daily 1.0 2025-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/31280e2a-c146-4240-9131-d37d100cae29/Trowie+Mound.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/ff04690a-888c-4494-9975-7f854a3d0520/Death+on+a+Longship.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/8e9b08d7-8d2e-4440-b8e1-95dcbee553ac/A+Handful+of+Ash.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/9273f39d-6296-457b-a9af-aab95691032b/cover+ASWM+copy.jpg Home - Cass’s latest adventure, A Shetland Winter Mystery, was launched in November 2021. It’s the dark nights in the run up to Christmas, and sailing sleuth Cass Lynch’s first night on dry land is disturbed by strange noises outside her isolated cottage. Tiny footprints in the moonlit snow trail from her front door before mysteriously disappearing. Soon Cass learns others were visited by the same tiny feet in the night. It looks like ingenious local teenagers playing tricks – but what happens when festive games turn deadly? Cass soon finds out as a schoolboy disappears, leaving only a trail of footprints into the middle of a snowy field. She’s determined to investigate, but uncovering the truth will also put her in danger… https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/reviews daily 0.75 2020-08-26 https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/shetland-life-articles daily 0.75 2020-08-26 https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/writing daily 0.75 2020-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452506841-5ZA2OV78YO55D7303AYL/1+early+writing.JPG Writing As soon as I could hold a pencil I started writing stories! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452506868-VMGZALDASIH5DBDZFDO4/2+school+plays.JPG Writing My first published writing was plays I’d written for my pupils to perform. Some of these are published by DramaWorks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452506852-804XYEEQ84XZONQW1SYF/3+planning+book.JPG Writing Initial ideas and a broad plan are developed on paper, then a chapter plan as I write. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452506846-3Q4T8GBJBPY7FRVC7QC8/4+winter+calm+copy.jpg Writing Once I’ve decided when and where the book will be set, I spend that actual week going to the places and noting down description, weather and events. I take loads of photographs, which I use as desktop images and screen savers as I write. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452506873-X9OE2TT3ZP9G0DZN6RB4/4b+miss+m+on+desk+copy.JPG Writing I write direct onto the computer, updating the plan as I go. Yes, there usually is a cat slowing me down – Miss Matty believes I can’t write a word without her help. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452506880-LIXNKWQPSVERKRPZ41TJ/5+writing+room.JPG Writing I have a strict routine: writing 9-11, 3-4 and in the evening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452506886-9B8NC7B9CGS4ZDF3YIYV/6+belmont+house.jpg Writing I love a view beside me as I write. This was my best-ever writing room, in Belmont House, the setting for Ghosts of the Vikings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452506863-JT2Z5BI52QM3G8B8GIGY/6b+practical+boat+owner.JPG Writing As well as novels I write a column in the sailing magazine Practical Boat Owner and I review books for PBO and the e-zine Mystery People. It still feels exciting to see my name and photo at the top of the page! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452506857-BOUX1ZPQEEDW8HCGNKX2/7+me+new+book.JPG Writing It’s so exciting when the first copies of a new book arrive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452506892-F9VANAK84TCUYX1V935S/8+westside+writers.jpg Writing The best encouragement ever is being part of a writers’ group. We pick a topic each week, which inspires me to write short stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452506900-BT3FGY0WMCP3MUMNR6MA/9+book+signing.JPG Writing I really love bookshop signings – it’s so good to meet Cass fans! https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/water-adventures daily 0.75 2020-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452512691-E5OELHQJFFFS011MCDK9/1+damp+but+mde+it+norway.JPG Water Adventures My biggest sailing adventure was with Joe and Graham. We went from Shetland to Norway in Joe’s 32 foot Contessa, through a gale. It took us from 9am on Monday to 2am on Wednesday. We arrived soaked through but very pleased with ourselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452512702-Z4PAH12V07ADR158Y7H9/2+gutting+fish+norway.jpg Water Adventures The next-door boat kindly gave us mackerel for breakfast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452512696-L3SXP5OLB5JADRBEQXXO/3+helming+fjords.JPG Water Adventures After that we spent a glorious three days meandering through the fjords. It’s the way to see Norway! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452512733-IHGH6AGOA3BAYMX6YMO8/4+j+and+l+paddling+copy.JPG Water Adventures The joys of paddleboarding on one of Scotland's most beautiful lochs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452512726-BMK7P1MA14NE4I4VP4FF/4+sorlandet+helm+copy.JPG Water Adventures I’ve done several voyages as a trainee on board the Norwegian square-rigger Sørlandet – yes, Cass’s ship! My proudest moment was helming her into Belfast, with the Captain himself giving me orders just as if I was one of the crew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452512709-JXP2L0KHQL95W5NTW434/6+bowsprit+working+copy.jpeg Water Adventures Unlike Cass, I have a lousy head for heights, so I never made it higher than the second platform of the masts, but I was first to volunteer for bowsprit work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452512737-9KEU1PEKNX8J86TSGTAK/7+on+lookout+copy.JPG Water Adventures This ship’s not going to hit icebergs while I’m on lookout. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452512742-GHP9MOPFU023LYETU8JZ/8+swan+in+vementry+copy.JPG Water Adventures I’ve also had some fantastic voyages aboard Shetland’s own tall ship, the converted Fifie fishing boat, Swan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452512750-2K33CRJT2ZI63CTAFTR7/9+Swan+windy.jpg Water Adventures Swan out at sea! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452512715-ZBUFH3RLQWRLNXF5RRTT/10+Vementry+2008.jpg Water Adventures Mostly I’m sailing Karima on my own, but sometimes we have summer rallies. Here are all the Brae boats moored up at Vementry for a midsummer BBQ. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452512721-BWC9GQTAMK7TA9GCKVX0/11+punting.JPG Water Adventures Not quite sailing, but when I was at the St Hilda’s Crime Conference, Oxford, I had to try out punting. I didn’t fall in, and the students on the river bank were very helpful with instructions, once they’d stopped laughing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1600161293770-VASSQIZGU7VSREVAO96Y/P1230877+copy.JPG Water Adventures Trying out a coracle at Portsoy Boat Festival. It had a tendency to go round in circles but I made it to the harbour wall and back. https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/shetland-seasons daily 0.75 2020-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598517303653-7ZLAC5EF562A5MZV7H6Q/5+early+summer+garden.JPG Shetland Seasons Suddenly there are flowers everywhere... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610794356-DFGNGDJJ1AQ4F4DIUOD8/1+dancing+toadstool+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Dancing toadstool https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513883639-A45GDRVJC5SVMDBGLES7/2+land+use+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons A still day in Aith where the low sun and reflections really bring out the way communities are structured: the houses run along the edge of the water, with the parks, the cultivated fields, running down to the water, and the scattald, or shared hill grazing, up above. This is the Norse pattern, with every household having its own fields and shore area, for the boat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598517469795-XO5R5H9PQ9K81TRCQS25/11+casting+peats+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Here I am casting – cutting long rectangles of wet peat and putting them on top of the bank to dry out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610779695-076MR86TJ7GIV0OJRJP4/2+autumn+misty+valley+copy.jpg Shetland Seasons Mist lying low early in a valley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611150128-T93XFRDBROF7O4EY6VGK/1+winter+colours+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Winter colours reflected on the voe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513889919-VMQTDDNKGIO7ERRN0QAQ/6+burning+heather+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Spring is when crofters burn off the old heather stems, to let the new grass come through. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598517387787-3G04XO3BLBYOZABC19CW/17+good+day+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons A bonny day for taking school children out on Shetland’s own Tall Ship, the restored fishing boat Swan. She’s a Fifie, and the largest boat to be built at Hay’s Docks, where the Shetland Museum now is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610782711-NOBDP1OV70OG1DDKGO7B/3+still+autumn+morn+copy+2.jpg Shetland Seasons A still autumn morning in the marina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611148307-A9LPRNLU2UT5T6R0MO0V/2+guillemots+copy+2.jpg Shetland Seasons Guillemots in winter plumage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513942999-KY1MVYMTYUMR8LKKY9OI/8+mist+fx+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons A March mist on the hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598517275566-YPETKRXPQZEUKGIN3ZQO/20+golden+evening+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons A golden evening on the beach at Papa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610790136-H2IRKBIGHB6PJ88FNOFG/4+Shet+sheep+copy+2.JPG Shetland Seasons Coloured sheep enjoying the last summer weather. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611172959-YYLF7D5R3KFTSP3COLNN/3+frosty+morning.JPG Shetland Seasons Looking up the voe on a frosty December morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513902840-C8KBUKHRCL2GKDWFO7G2/9+crocus+2+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons At last in mid-March the spring flowers appear! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598517294883-TTPYHAJ9MZUN0VTUO7LV/32+heath+orchid+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons June’s ‘flower of the month’ – the gorgeous ‘curly dodie’. First the royal purple ones, then, later in the month, the smaller marsh orchids in every shade of pink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610791708-UY06D9S0MQJYD40HK6JT/5+cormorants+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Scarfs or shags, on Papa Little. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611150522-LCLCHJ7F0DZJC3QWOHZ0/4+cormorant+copy+3.JPG Shetland Seasons Another bird that you see closer inshore in winter is the shag. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513895787-4261KHMJUDPHYR2A6UXT/11+jarl+and+galley+copy.jpg Shetland Seasons The last Up Helly As are held in March: South Mainland, Delting and the Walls and District Up Helly A, where the honour of being the Jarl, or lead Viking, is shared between the Brownies, the Youth Club and the Sea Scouts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598517282959-Z12W8MRKQKLG1BH75CUB/35+poppies+copy+2.JPG Shetland Seasons The summer flower that’s in every garden: big scarlet poppies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610808006-J8W9SI8X57RWP2O63IUE/6+heather+purpling.JPG Shetland Seasons Heather on Muckle Roe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611161155-534RVY85V78RQJEV2O2R/5+milla+snow+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Milla with her winter coat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513892635-A2M0SJ1C1KUGZIHQTVJG/15+coming+round+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Motoring from the marina to the pier to get her mast craned back on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598517287627-PYQWWG0WPBJCXBRUUT30/36+gruting+2.JPG Shetland Seasons A golden summer evening in Gruting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610803213-C9FH97217CDWJPDLYKDM/8+Da+Kist+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons A rock known locally as ‘Da Kist’ (the Chest) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611189894-3SV559C5GPYQAVVJDXUC/6+hill+colour.JPG Shetland Seasons A bonny January day can be just as colourful as autumn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513905160-HKXKGHLKXEV30CSCRO49/17+muckle+roe+mussels+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Mussel floats at the end of the voe; the mussels grow from ropes dangling down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598517296284-WBEHBOL6A68R99AJPD2F/38+standing+stones+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Standing stones, Papa Stour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610814042-WLT0WZKUJAQ1NKZSI494/9+V+isle+sunset+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Sunset over Vementry Isle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611163906-HFTJNEITXNN51BBPKKV6/7+hill+colours+3+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Ruby spagnum moss by a hill burn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513909366-5Z8G2UO9V1AWTY8MNIO7/18+nesbister+sun+copy+2.JPG Shetland Seasons Spring sunshine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598517301876-66ENLRH2B1N62TMEQP36/43+seals+2+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Selkies, or seals, drying out on one of the south mainland’s sandy beaches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610813952-TDJY8DBWXMVZCE7SI0BP/10+flying+gale.JPG Shetland Seasons An October gale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611222973-7QBKSNTNKW4DAJW8Z0E7/8+wild+day+marina+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons A January gale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513910774-CJ55ED67MSDP3Z5U8YYF/19a+lambs+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons A pair of colourful Shetland lambs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598517303792-NXOXAC8ATZCIOD2611CL/45+yowe+copy+2.JPG Shetland Seasons A very fashionable yowe or ewe, with earrings! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610830571-DO1UA77A33LRNN3HBTJ5/11+young+guillemot+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons A young guillemot in its winter plumage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611169078-NER4WBZT3SG5A3IYV2GM/9+herons+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons A ‘siege’ of herons up in the hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513903865-IT1531JCH40Z5CTX4POW/21+esh+white+water+copy.jpg Shetland Seasons A spring gale at the cliffs of Eshaness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598517409483-LQEHIU4LIL9ARRVE2TXI/47+campion+sea+pinks+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Red campion and sea pinks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610803942-27TSTEL7ZMS7EGKM5VJ9/12+autumn+ram+copy.jpg Shetland Seasons Autumn ram. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611165763-BK25UXLZHXJXEJ8OPINU/10+frosty+planticrub+copy.jpg Shetland Seasons Ice on a loch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513915623-DN5ENG3JZO70Z880XP7B/23+gold+hills+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons The spring sunshine turns the weathered grass on the hills to gold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598517309047-Z8JNZL0QO26VZXSVRS41/49+wormedale+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Driving west from Lerwick, with the three steps of Foula on the horizon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610811846-TX6V8UDIGZJG6I6HK5RH/13+autumn+voe+copy.jpg Shetland Seasons The voe in Autumn colours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611208715-452BZJYYR6PFAONEHBF2/11+otter+3+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons I had great fun watching otters from the pier on still winter mornings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513933348-YE87P3I6UZBQPXMDA8A9/24+green+lilies+copy+2.JPG Shetland Seasons The last daffodil to flower is the “Shetland green lily” which you find in old crofthouse gardens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598517327103-9DUGP2XXAGH2U8BLPXO9/50+spinnaker+copy.jpg Shetland Seasons Summer is sailing season, of course, and on very light wind days I can sometimes fly my Karima’s bonny spinnker. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610814985-6Z3BW5BL11A95SVFGOKP/14+FI+montbretia+copy.jpg Shetland Seasons A verge of montbretia on Fair Isle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611186433-NXTZ4PUJLV4HUAZQ279D/12+seagulls+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Herring gulls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513909076-PEOM2VDLEC3ZN18QJQUU/25+redd+up+copy.jpg Shetland Seasons The last week in April, and volunteers all over Shetland take part in our annual ‘Redd Up’. The Amenity Trust issues rubbish bags and gloves, and we all ‘pick up brukk’ on verges and beaches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598517320862-3RZXGNOHBCA3ZZXYJ3SF/56+waterlilies+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Waterlilies in a lochan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610821153-08D6IZH5R3DM2GCAONTO/15+sleeping+gulls+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Gulls sheltering on the football pitch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611195247-GRC67IL1CRC410OQ4PV3/13+snowdrops+old+graveyard+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Signs of spring: snowdrops in the old kirkyard, mid-February. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513918035-28Z05MO3TS6MCBTPH5OJ/26a+picos+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Junior sailing begins up at Brae on the first weekend of May. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598517328154-F3KQPUX5OJ3UJTR0AL4B/58+summer+skies.JPG Shetland Seasons Summer skies promise a fine day tomorrow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610826447-A8OR6WQC6VQ8JJ4GN3XJ/16+monkshood+copy.jpg Shetland Seasons The last of the garden flowers, Shetland delphinium, or monkshood, a deadly poison. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611204369-MZEVIFWOS442VYLMWJPS/14+old+and+new+voe+kirk+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Voe Kirk, old and new. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513942701-LGH8TZH1NHP5DCIYIV4T/27+children+jumping+in+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons No, they don’t need to jump in afterwards when we’ve managed to keep them mostly dry, but they love doing it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598517335015-MNVAV5GCTTI2M7OD0NCI/60+great+skua+copy.jpg Shetland Seasons A bonxie, or great skua, the pirate of the bird world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610828924-Z7Z5R4P6XUPN67IVKBDC/17+autumn+colours+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons By late October, the heather stems and marsh grass create this glorious burnt orange. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611193166-0WQJ4SJ3X3GP1VY2K4KS/15+croft+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons A crofthouse in mid-February. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513943873-UC8TKFZ1KWZ9LE5YUO0K/29+fulmars+copy.jpg Shetland Seasons May, and fulmars nesting on the cliffs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598517334852-BDXV3KH5ZCH5SP9IJYZ5/70+old+cott+mede+copy.jpg Shetland Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610834641-5M0ZTNN382N6QCJ092IP/18+pony+sheep.JPG Shetland Seasons The ponies are getting their thick winter coats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611208224-1EH6BH5UV0PEEBM4MQDE/15a+ram+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons A black sheep up on the hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513932514-BLSY617C0EFP6NJQHK59/30+prmroses+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons A field of primroses in mid-May. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598517357648-7TZ04RL1P7OIM77IQS93/83+milla+and+foal1+copy+2.JPG Shetland Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610820855-8J9PFXNHWASXJWZR122X/19+scarfs+aut+hills+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons A flock of shags flying over the autumn hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611220072-PYRSNH1RYDSC1MKAOREX/16+rona2+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons A still February day out on the water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513943549-9WIOCQMBJHMTHJSSO4MX/32a+mid-May+tulips.JPG Shetland Seasons Tulips are an early-summer flower in Shetland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598517367896-PIWDQ5NNDI2RFMA10Y2D/94+agricultural+show+copy+2.JPG Shetland Seasons The agricultural shows begin in August. Voe is the first; this is the pony show ring at Walls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610831708-RCHKF8389CD2S2H16E5I/20+masts+down+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons The marina rules are that masts must come down before the start of November. Of course I delay it as long as possible... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611214487-Y18ANCJFEM215LDU9A8U/17+snowscape+copy.jpg Shetland Seasons We almost always get several days of snow at the end of February. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513943310-7V5U8W23SR7Y5KVZNAOQ/33+sailing+copy.jpg Shetland Seasons Out in the Røna on a windy day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598518030715-4YEXE48SX9EDTFE0DPR0/75+puffin+2+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Puffin at Sumburgh Lighthouse https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598610836483-CKGE4NLC79T46R5FCJF6/20a+sword+dance+1+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Winter activities begin, like evening classes and hall dances. Here the Papa Stour Sword Dance group are beginning their performance of this traditional dance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611226151-CZUQ7PRMTVYTQZ85SGZV/18+boat+shore+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons A bright, breezy spring day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598513948681-KN8QGJ3QH3MV7CFWIB2Q/36+milla+in+garden+copy.JPG Shetland Seasons Milla, pressed into use as a lawn mower. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598611292204-IWYWQ04ADULTBL0DX1B0/20+still+day.JPG Shetland Seasons Spring sunshine on the marina- time to think about antifouling and getting my mast upright. https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/unpublished-novels daily 0.75 2020-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1600496498458-D5Y7LHVVX0P2Z3ME65RD/3+crime+novels.JPG Unpublished Novels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1600496547706-WBTTCADYBNQBFE3UJPRO/2+historical+novels.JPG Unpublished Novels https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/cat-kitten-and-khalida daily 0.75 2020-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599221371208-L8NUUX2ERN8LMG86R4A0/windowsill+grumpy+copy.JPG Cat, Kitten and Khalida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599221367857-7GHHC8J1W3L4RD2PPPTE/smug+or+scary+copy.jpg Cat, Kitten and Khalida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599221543463-6IO4GO7JQ96GF38DBMVN/kitten+seaboot.jpg Cat, Kitten and Khalida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599221693474-SAZPHT9J8U6GKPH4FG7O/1+Karima+above.jpg Cat, Kitten and Khalida My Karima S at Vementry. The rolled up blue sail at the front is the jib; the white bundle is the mainsail; the white blade contraption at the back is the windvane to help the boat steer herself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599221378262-G89FCXY16I1YOHLMY4Z2/wall+upright+copy.JPG Cat, Kitten and Khalida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599221542509-BT0GENL86KSXCHE230GK/matty+petrov.jpg Cat, Kitten and Khalida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599221694742-KBA7YMP6624ZV1GV0CCI/5+sailing+into+susnest+aug.JPG Cat, Kitten and Khalida Sailing into the sunset – out between the Røna Light and the Vementry Guns, then next stop Greenland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599221550634-0ZHZ97WBJI7HDC6E9LXI/miss+m+mohair.JPG Cat, Kitten and Khalida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599221692009-MK76SZM7FDSXDB9SF5ZU/6+spinnaker.jpg Cat, Kitten and Khalida As I sail mostly single-handed, I only dare fly the spinnaker in the lightest of winds – but oh, it’s pretty! NJI was the owner before last. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599221693743-4LZ53IFDE6PDV7I86Z84/2+khalida+cabin.JPG Cat, Kitten and Khalida In the cabin, looking forward towards the heads (you can just see the toilet seat between the wooden bulkhead and the white one) and forecabin, where the light airs sails are stored. The prop-leg table on the right is lowered to couch level at sea. The ‘step’ at the bottom of the picture is the combined cabin steps and box covering the engine – Cass sits there when she has visitors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599221548094-SSZB26IEC1S3SG10RKV3/Miss+Matty%2C+grown+up.JPG Cat, Kitten and Khalida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599221679186-BXPVSFLFYF29KG7HZE0L/3+K+cooker.JPG Cat, Kitten and Khalida Cooking facilities aboard! ‘Fiddles’ keep the mugs and plates in their place, even when the boat’s tipped so far over that the sea is washing the opposite windows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599221662712-MBRGORBT7Q8IQKD33B0G/4+Casssberth.jpg Cat, Kitten and Khalida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599221683975-8CC5WH70YSIKIC308ZJC/4+cass%27s+berth.JPG Cat, Kitten and Khalida Looking towards the stern of the boat. Cass’s berth runs back under the starboard cockpit seat. https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/https/wwwmarsalitaylorcouk/death-in-a-shetland-lane daily 0.75 2023-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/5a962539-ff31-4320-acb3-4049363d0351/Death-in-a-Shetland-Lane-1.jpg Death in a Shetland Lane - Sailing sleuth Cass Lynch is home on leave when she meets Lizbet, a young singer smarting from her encounter with the ruthless world of the popular TV talent show, You’re the Stars! Lizbet has a star voice, but not the looks. Her showy backing singer Chloe got the TV attention. The very next day, Chloe dies in a seemingly accidental fall. Cass and her partner, DI Gavin Macrae, soon discover that more than one person had a reason to want Chloe out of the way... This latest adventure includes Cass and Gavin visiting ‘Shetland’s most haunted house’, the ruined Windhouse in Yell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/b55408af-4226-4cf0-8456-74f2fd060624/khalida+no+mast.JPG Death in a Shetland Lane Khalida looking small without her mast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/8b073474-665c-40c5-84f1-6dd9206a2d86/8+windhouse+front+2.JPG Death in a Shetland Lane The once-imposing front of Windhouse, Yell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/6aded7a6-4234-4e32-ac5c-0725ab9ff954/10+armorial+stone.JPG Death in a Shetland Lane The armorial crest above the porch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/60c73692-2ae3-4f3a-8ca4-28dc8d695f1c/14+right+wing+rubble.jpg Death in a Shetland Lane Inside the ruined Windhouse, Yell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/7aec9487-da31-4d94-89bb-d2a7032a1757/25+Mary%27s+shop+1.jpg Death in a Shetland Lane Inside Mary's shop, Aywick, Yell. If Mary's doesn't have it, you don't need it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/aeb016f4-dd22-49c7-a936-16c47f2d3d89/19+Mary%27s+trainers.JPG Death in a Shetland Lane One of the many rooms in Mary's shop, Aywick. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/30d2a5cb-f472-4835-a1c4-a34a1c54cbd2/table+grave+kirk.JPG Death in a Shetland Lane An old grave and the ruined kirk near Breckon, Yell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/51e1b2de-7c66-4287-853e-d1da4d16b52b/32+kirk+loch.JPG Death in a Shetland Lane Kirk Loch, near Breckon, Yell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/dbc7c7cf-3b40-4bd0-af20-6fdff64c3a94/38+memorial+wife.jpg Death in a Shetland Lane The Gloup Memorial, Yell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/010575a6-a507-4eba-b5b1-85916f0bd720/14+s+MId+Yell+new+school.JPG Death in a Shetland Lane The new Mid Yell school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/45c7ef2e-a6e4-4cb7-ae21-5d2f8308e354/43+Y+leisure+centre.JPG Death in a Shetland Lane The MId Yell Leisure Centre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/9bb8e1fa-df08-48e5-be21-555a5f4e1963/18+March+first+daffodils.JPG Death in a Shetland Lane Spring flowers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/84fe3694-0e70-47a4-ba6c-2f2a8e23242b/kitten+sunshine.JPG Death in a Shetland Lane The Kitten enjoying the sunshine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/fa5a1f52-bb69-43a0-a32d-74d5dc21f3cc/march+colours.JPG Death in a Shetland Lane A bonny spring day in Aith, with the marina and RNLI lifeboat station. https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/death-at-a-shetland-festival daily 0.75 2024-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/a9459415-23ff-4b29-b306-517a05f7ba22/Death-at-a-Shetland-Festival-PB-B-alt.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/799c8d8d-2b96-4571-afa9-c064033e4148/Aith+Hall.JPG Death at a Shetland Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/66de6f7f-c5e7-42fc-a251-2d2f7d38c38f/May+garden.JPG Death at a Shetland Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/551352b5-3d35-4aee-89c9-ecd72af50d28/Milla.JPG Death at a Shetland Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/87fb9e40-66ea-406a-ad6d-b843a726ade4/kitten+and+petrov2.jpg Death at a Shetland Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/348d2b9f-6a1b-4533-b416-91dfb5c16b89/eshaness+cliffs.JPG Death at a Shetland Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/3bf180ba-6df0-4dce-b784-89d71e230611/bardister+house+2+copy.JPG Death at a Shetland Festival https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/animposteronshetland daily 0.75 2025-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/6de6782c-5b8d-4200-9756-ebec6043b899/An-Imposter-on-Shetland-front-4+copy+2.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/cd41e68e-2993-4772-876e-1d27ac1c4f88/approaching+st+k.jpg An Imposter on Shetland Approaching St Kilda aboard the Swan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/6d1f8a19-3ea6-4ebc-93a2-1599426578e4/swan+in+village+bay.jpg An Imposter on Shetland Swan anchored in Village Bay, Hirta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1433fbf6-8d52-4646-a539-fe7a3b561e7a/hillside+with+walls+and+cleitan.jpg An Imposter on Shetland Walls and ruined cleitan, St Kilda https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/60647054-2920-45ec-9271-b9c9330ae524/cleit.jpg An Imposter on Shetland A cleit in good repair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/d82b601e-d494-4ca6-bd81-b3e33ad74904/a+ruined+houses.jpg An Imposter on Shetland The row of houses on Hirta, ending in the RAF base. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/b0ff2afc-9517-4c59-9411-5ee5cbf5212f/village+bay+swan+cruise+ship.jpg An Imposter on Shetland Looking down on Village Bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/43d33141-c782-48c3-a075-1e2da3c29e00/restored+houses.jpg An Imposter on Shetland Restored houses, Hirta. The final one is the museum, with the 'Parliament Bench' in front of it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/a13c353a-b9b9-432e-9d3d-86136f8bf575/graveyard.jpg An Imposter on Shetland The graveyard, Hirta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/5233a1b8-4c84-47b1-b9e9-b6453481057e/voe+fish.JPG An Imposter on Shetland The fish sculpture in Voe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/4de28bb9-46c9-4b49-99a5-2657c726c7b3/muckle+roe+light.JPG An Imposter on Shetland Muckle Roe light from Khalida. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/b6585c5c-8d08-45ae-996b-d21f7ada7b6e/out+sailing+-+Jenny+Leask.jpg An Imposter on Shetland Khalida under sail in Aith Voe (photo: Jenny Leask) https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/new-page daily 0.75 2025-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/40eaa10f-6606-4d46-9a94-ff42bfd7c894/Death-in-a-Shetland-Family.jpg https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/historical daily 0.75 2022-12-07 https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/historical/footsteps-in-the-dew monthly 0.5 2022-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599645417373-SPEXVS6G6SVQKGPCIZH1/FootstepsInTheDew-MarsaliTaylor+copy.jpeg Historical - Footsteps in the Dew https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/historical/shetland-plays monthly 0.5 2020-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599724723478-FA6ERWF0L4E54SPIIFYL/family2.jpg Historical - Shetland Plays https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/historical/rupert-prince-palatine monthly 0.5 2020-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598955420573-KTE5FIRJHXHDNEKUZ7R8/rupert.jpg Historical - Rupert, Prince Palatine Rupert, Prince Palatine, as a boy in Holland, by Gerrit von Honthurst. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598955420264-UHBHC5L5PNSX6D3BMNL4/prince.jpg Historical - Rupert, Prince Palatine Rupert, Prince Palatine, about 1637, Studio of Anthony Van Dyck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598955421351-ANWNA3ZI5HL87JADCZCX/rupert2.jpg Historical - Rupert, Prince Palatine Rupert, right, with his older brother Carl at the court of King Charles in England. Studio of Anthony Van Dyck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598955421135-4NEELXEZJMLQV82922DR/prince2.jpg Historical - Rupert, Prince Palatine Rupert's beloved younger brother and companion in arms, Maurice, Prince Palatine by Gerrit von Honthurst. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598955422613-S5TR65AKB4GILKLKKGO9/prince3.jpg Historical - Rupert, Prince Palatine Rupert, Prince Palatine, aged 22, soon after his return from three years captivity. By Gerrit von Honthurst. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598955419208-T7K4MN6GSQLS6PW8FQ45/rupert3.jpg Historical - Rupert, Prince Palatine https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/shetland-sailing-mysteries daily 0.75 2023-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/83439c6c-059c-46cd-b9de-37ef53cb4434/mt-map-graphic-update-2022-09-28.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599221933478-GV0IQQBZK24TPFHA2T29/smug+or+scary+copy.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599221930031-BMKY3I9RWK5R5RFZ6N2U/matty+petrov.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599221928532-QUNGXR63E62S7QWZCVY2/6+spinnaker.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/shetland-sailing-mysteries/death-from-a-shetland-cliff monthly 0.5 2020-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599560628915-G07JIK75QMKMXT73YNT4/DEATH+ON+A+SHETLAND+CLIFF+-+FINAL+small.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death from a Shetland Cliff https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456855-M2525QZ8WJ2ILBWNSQEM/1+august+colour+on+the+hills.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death from a Shetland Cliff Late summer, and the hills are beginning to turn purple. This view is from above the Westings Inn, with Foula on the horizon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456849-HRYYIUH3XCW5QFVJKYOK/2+croft+houses+heather+hill.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death from a Shetland Cliff A cluster of croft houses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456883-KXXQYCDMKIZCFHRA3MXW/3+crofthouse+old+stiva.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death from a Shetland Cliff I imagined Tamar’s crofthouse as something like this one in Aith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456878-ZXA4GGZQEW2LTLKCNWX0/4+track+to+pier+container.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death from a Shetland Cliff The track from Tamar’s parking place down to the pier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456860-XOSENA59VV55G6QD1R6I/5+headland%2C+linga.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death from a Shetland Cliff The point of Houbansetter, with the curve of Linga behind, and the houses of Brae in the distance. The Skro is just around the corner from the point. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456869-PF2X02NT07RTKC1BW5TU/6+skro+2.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death from a Shetland Cliff The Skro, where Cass, Magnie and Jeemie find a body. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456891-21WQQMLDQ5HWOY9KQRU1/7+lambie+house+and+pier.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death from a Shetland Cliff Looking south from in front of Tamar’s house: the lambie house, containers and the end of the pier. The headland hides the first houses of Aith, the ‘White City’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456874-5HNIEELPGKIGP4ITSRIU/8+sheepdog+trials.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death from a Shetland Cliff A contestant at the Skeld Sheepdog Trials, 2016. https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/shetland-sailing-mysteries/a-handful-of-ash monthly 0.5 2022-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/f245e21c-9436-42df-9f56-27e3075ab293/A+Handful+of+Ash.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Night Killings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456326-FMP05DFMYIK4UNU5297Z/1+scalloway.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Night Killings This photograph shows Scalloway, with the castle in the centre, the fisheries college at the upper left side, with the marina beside it, and the background of Gallows Hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456358-L6KTDNUVVJ0GR9YQITJH/2+spanish+closs.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Night Killings Spanish Closs, where Cass found Annette’s body. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456347-3UTVUT0VGFJSRYF2MQ2U/3+lane.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Night Killings One of the lanes leading up to the Castle. The garden on the right is the one reputed to have two dead babies buried in it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456340-VQ92QJI9AS094856IB56/4+museum.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Night Killings Scalloway Museum, with its history of Scalloway, and the story of the Shetland Bus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456312-81MXWEXRRQ7Z2F8GON4M/5+smiddy+ducking+stane.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Night Killings The haunted Smiddy, taken from Burns Beach. The ducking stane was just in front of it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456332-IYJGJ4C66Q96AAKUHZCL/6+dinapore.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Night Killings This house, Dinapore, was the HQ of the Shetland Bus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456353-4Z5OQA25XHKEVL7ORQOT/7+memorial.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Night Killings The memorial to the men of the Shetland Bus, built with stones from all the places associated with them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456365-5L4P0JYNIYVGSPZBKYDO/8+slip+2.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Night Killings The slip where the men of the Shetland Bus mended their boats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456372-CO36I2F0OAC1SL61WT0B/9+inside+Sc+castle.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Night Killings Inside the great hall of Scalloway Castle, facing the wall Cass has to climb to get away from a murderer. https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/shetland-sailing-mysteries/death-on-a-shetland-isle monthly 0.5 2023-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/3f9da94e-d8fc-4a0a-afb9-2cd146a13cfc/death+on+a+shetland+isle++reprint.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Isle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598538256430-YNURRT1SNACUBD2UD7AI/mousa.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Isle Mousa, with the broch visible on its headland at the right hand side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456757-TME5HL0O1WGF3MIC0VEG/2+coming+into+houbie.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Isle The Fetlar village of Houbie, and the bay below the houses where Sørlandet was anchored. The blue roof in the centre is the Hall, and the pier and interpretative centre is just hidden by the nearer hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456744-QW4J8INM6K623WYOY1X2/3+fetlar+interp+centre.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Isle Fetlar interpretative centre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456766-W1AOB4X1W15EV7I3BQB9/4+Giant%27s+grave+headland.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Isle Looking from the camping bød towards the Giant’s Grave, which is the green mound in the second shorn field. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456761-YTH71CUOETMATK8FU8OK/5+loch+o+Funzie+geowall.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Isle The geowall at the Loch of Funzie. The hide is just off the photo to the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456751-KDOSARRT8YKP29G1SQWP/6+the+camping+bod.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Isle The camping bød. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456782-6VN8PM9Y3TXWCA7G22SC/7+fetlar+int.+main+hall.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Isle Inside the Fetlar Hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456777-5I1VAH6H649Z5CL41MP3/7ahnaf+board.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Isle A Hnafatafl board set up ready for a game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456772-G9AXYWMWEXAC2V7SMA06/8+bay+o+funzie.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Isle The Bay o’ Funzie, where Cass and Gavin walk along the cliffs. You can see the retaining wall in the centre left of the photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456795-ON6ZPDKLZHCVMOI46V49/9+brough+danger+sign.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Isle Brough Lodge, in the process of being refurbished. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456803-RPQXTVP0U3PX4FVC46WF/brough+banner.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Isle The long front of Brouch Lodge, with the main house, chapel and the Folly on its hill behind the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456787-I5C11Z10ECP4U4TWJ601/10+b+lodge+folly.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Isle The Folly at Brough Lodge. https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/shetland-sailing-mysteries/death-in-shetland-waters monthly 0.5 2023-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/2e7a4df4-0501-476e-9ec1-043e0935605b/death+in+shetland+waters+reprint.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death in Shetland Waters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456625-L6HEHIZY5O651W72LWBO/1+Krist+Sorl+copy+2.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death in Shetland Waters Walking from the café with the exceedingly good cake towards Sørlandet at her home berth in Kristiansand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456636-PDCQ6FFCEHYSCN5HUXXH/2+bracing+the+yards+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death in Shetland Waters Before the sails are unfurled, the yards they hang from have to be pulled round into the right position for the wind. The lowest, heaviet one takes the whole watch to get it moved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456649-QKHUZ4NXY5UXOM4J30L0/3+up+into+the+rig+copy+2.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death in Shetland Waters Then trainees put on their harnesses and climb up to untie the sails from the yard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456617-ZJL61TLW9WXKGZKD5TYS/3a+view+from+aft+deck+copy.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death in Shetland Waters The officers’ view from the aft deck, with the captain’s coffin and the ship’s wheel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456642-47TR5B5T30M12R6MPLFF/4+Park+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death in Shetland Waters The park in Stavanger, where Cass takes Cat for a run. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456630-GCER5X8DP3Y29JL8JJEQ/5+Sunset+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death in Shetland Waters Sunset at sea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456655-QYIBX6A4PGNDKZJ298TS/6+looking+along+the+top+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death in Shetland Waters The north coast of Scotland from on board. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456667-6W00UIUYYZFIV81KOSKQ/7+white+watch+scrubbing+decks+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death in Shetland Waters Scrubbing the decks- the ship has to be beautiful for her arrival in Belfast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456660-MN9FOYA369TTTIMHDSZT/8+Pilot+comes+aboard+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death in Shetland Waters The pilot comes aboard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456671-YOUA1VKFWA3ZGY42Q9PM/9+arrival+horse+cranes+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death in Shetland Waters Coming into Belfast docks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456680-RWYXKTJ6NGZ527YU592M/10+Sorlandet+in+port+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death in Shetland Waters Sørlandet with all her flags flying. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456686-ZZIPNXXESW8P28KJO33N/11+titanic+and+cranes+from+water+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death in Shetland Waters The Titanic Belfast Maritime Museum, where Cass has a dangerous encounter with a murderer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456698-9SYSQIJFXZNI8DF8Y869/12+crew+parade+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death in Shetland Waters Trainees and crew from all the ships lined up for the crew parade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456693-MAV3C3NLOWJW9DXI9173/13+whole+fish+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death in Shetland Waters The big fish. https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/shetland-sailing-mysteries/ghosts-of-the-vikings monthly 0.5 2022-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/7317b99f-949c-4a21-a4e4-8ec07325e465/Ghosts+of+the+Vikings.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Poisonings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456509-3QFTKVETCZGJTBFKMF0E/1+Khalida.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Poisonings Sailing in Khalida. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456518-6CR0D46942Y8ZHVXODLF/2+view+over+lund.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Poisonings A view over the long bay of Lunda Wick, where Cass anchors Khalida. The walls of the Norse chapel are surrounded by the graveyard. This was taken from by the broch. The stones in the field just below are the excavation of the older longhouse, and there are boat noosts in this shingle bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456541-X702HK1K3HTCJWK3XQKQ/3+upper+underhoull.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Poisonings The Viking house of Upper Underhoull, where Cass’s night patrol is interrupted by treasure-hunters and a Viking ghost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456513-ZA15XEUNEVOVK2NZ6RO8/4+bordastubble+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Poisonings Bordastubble Stone, on the road down to Lund Kirk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456548-D4KUKY8YYVQ4PMCINVK9/5+lund+church+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Poisonings The Norse St Olav’s Kirk. Lund. The smaller graves in front of the kirk date from the Norse era. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598538129559-O5TNI8HFX47AC2ETJ0CT/belmont.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Poisonings The restored Belmont House in Unst, where Maman’s opera company stayed and performed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456535-25PE1LGD8TQ61C9MQE6V/6+Belmont+fr+door+copy.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Poisonings Our writers’ group spent a wonderful weekend in Belmont House. This is the front door of Belmont House, from the hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456523-CVP3FD44C5SB1TNT3T2Y/7+Bel+drw+rm+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Poisonings The drawing room of Belmont House, where the singers perform. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456574-0LAT3KJ7QTYQA7VEJVEN/8+Bel+gazebo+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Poisonings The Gazebo at Belmont, where Cass overhears Kamilla arguing with someone – but who? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456559-Z6TWVNWF1EKRO2MAJGTS/9+Bel+bath+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Poisonings The wonderful boxed-in bath! I wanted to take this home with me, but I thought they’d notice ... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456528-EGH87HH0EXUX92HQMVAH/10+Lund+House+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Poisonings The ruins of Lund House – since this photo was taken, they’ve been taken down to shoulder height, for safety. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456563-GJYOK45NRIR68X5ZFLR8/11+lund+doorstep+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Poisonings The doorstep of Lund House, with the devil’s footprint hidden underneath. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456568-V1RHIF6JCHI4AVU73ILS/12+the+unst+ferry.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Poisonings The ferry between Yell and Unst. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598538130118-N1IF7JS8ZLFBNPN5PROU/hays.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Poisonings Looking down on Hay’s Dock. Mareel is the modern building on the right. https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/shetland-sailing-mysteries/the-trowie-mound-murders monthly 0.5 2022-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/31280e2a-c146-4240-9131-d37d100cae29/Trowie+Mound.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Buried in a Shetland Tomb https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456257-WDGVGO7OFETWZD7MUITX/1+cass%27s+beach.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Buried in a Shetland Tomb Cass talks about the house she grew up in on the island of Muckle Roe. Here’s just the place, almost at the end of the road, with a beach to launch her Mirror dinghy, Osprey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456226-5ND2KMTCSXCXJNPHFWO4/2+Picos+at+Brae.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Buried in a Shetland Tomb Pico dinghies sailing at Brae, with the RIB keeping guard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456248-11XPDH4QMYRJO1DDPIME/3+mirrors.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Buried in a Shetland Tomb Mirror dinghies racing at Brae. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456253-CUVZ73RND1XSZKQ9QK61/4+ch+c+wall.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Buried in a Shetland Tomb This is a small Shetland chambered cairn, on the island of Vementry. This is the outer wall; bodies would have been laid out below it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456262-FTS3YXOGDOPWNS5KD8TG/5+cc+M+Roe.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Buried in a Shetland Tomb Here you can see a bit of the chambered cairn interior (it was excavated and left open in Victorian times), and the view across the Røna to Muckle Roe and northwards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456237-RTGY424UCKN2JDTUYPZT/6+rnli+stall.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Buried in a Shetland Tomb Aith Ladies Lifeboat Guild Souvenirs Secretary Catriona Anderson in charge of her stall at Voe Show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456230-REOUXO7BRNRJXC2BLKK2/Voe.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Buried in a Shetland Tomb Looking down on the pier at Voe from the hill below the show ground. https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/shetland-sailing-mysteries/death-on-a-longship monthly 0.5 2022-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/ff04690a-888c-4494-9975-7f854a3d0520/Death+on+a+Longship.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Longship https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456122-DLKSNXPCTVF9ZPGNUQ2U/2+Yell+sound+2.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Longship Coming through Yell Sound to get to the west of Shetland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456133-JDCO2J8JLZN2HC5MQB82/1+Eshaness+light.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Longship The black cliffs of Eshaness which Cass and Anders pass in the final stage of their journey to Shetland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456128-ZHI0D2WNSKUF7W1UWM3S/5+longship+head.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Longship I based Cass’s Viking ship, Stormfugl, on a real boat, the Skibladner, which was abandoned here in Shetland until the Amenity trust bought her. She’s now part of the Viking Unst exhibition at Haraldswick. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456143-K3OWT0N3WGDGQLHI6O8B/6+Vementry+guns.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Longship The Vementry guns from at sea. They were put on Vementry Isle in WWI to guard the fleet anchored in St Magnus Bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456169-0598J5RIEIZHAHMWLLYM/7+south+hams+bay.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Longship This bay is the South Hams, where Cass sails her longship for her big filming episode. The house the rock falls from is just visible on the hill to the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456164-JAK1NGB1D9SIA4GVBKAH/8+busta+2.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Longship Busta House has a romantic and tragic history. It’s the oldest still-inhabited house in Shetland, dating back to before 1600. It’s now a very popular hotel and restaurant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456138-8T83UPROGZBJCHCTT62I/3+red+cliffs+of+Muckle+R+.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Longship The cliffs of Muckle Roe, the “big red island” shining in the summer sun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456176-2SK8F6X2X53CULN99F7C/Delting+BC.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death on a Shetland Longship Delting boating club https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/shetland-sailing-mysteries/the-body-in-the-bracken monthly 0.5 2022-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/60f34793-1296-41b1-8853-d123f58b6950/Body+in+the+Bracken.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Grave of a Shetland Sailor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456435-J33VGXSFLAD9QIQEBNS1/1+cottage+and+narrows+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Grave of a Shetland Sailor The head of Gavin’s loch with the narrows which he leads Cass through. The farm can just be glimpsed through the trees on the far right; I hope that some day he’ll persuade her to come and live with him in the cottage on the lower left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456450-HFCE5CBIDQVSAUH2FK4C/2+farm+close+up+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Grave of a Shetland Sailor Gavin’s family farm. It’s now a B&B, but in my young days it really was a farm, and my sister and I would walk from the cottage to get fresh milk. It tasted so good that not much of it made it back! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456423-P92FBL77V5EKF3DMA9LR/3+loch+o+gonfirth.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Grave of a Shetland Sailor The Loch of Gonfirth, where Jeemie met the njuggle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456429-58OF2ETCVOOOG4ZEUW0X/4+jeemie%27s+house.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Grave of a Shetland Sailor Looking from the water at Jeemie’s house, Grobsness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456445-0OTU4RMMAWY1NUWY4FF6/5+rona+grobsness+road.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Grave of a Shetland Sailor This photo was taken looking west from just past the Loch o’ Gonfirth. The road to Grobsness winds off in the right of the photo. The thin arm of sea is the Røna, with Papa Stour in the far distance, and Vementry Isle and islet in the middle, and Muckle Roe on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456439-X84IWMFTBZXQ4KMU38EC/6+gonfirth+sunset.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Grave of a Shetland Sailor Sunset over Gonfirth Voe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456463-YDVC660MGCCGROWTY8E9/7+scalloway+up+helly+a.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Grave of a Shetland Sailor The start of the procession at Scalloway Fire Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456457-B97M543DHZ38WGQENA25/8+burning+boat.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Grave of a Shetland Sailor The burning galley. https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/shetland-sailing-mysteries/a-shetland-christmas-mystery monthly 0.5 2022-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1657219576474-4GD7UYMF86T6216QV2YG/cover+ASWM+copy.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery It’s the dark nights in the run up to Christmas, when Shetland’s little people, the trows, are traditionally allowed to wander around human houses. Sailing sleuth Cass Lynch wakes to find tiny footprints in the snow around the cottage she shares with Gavin, her policeman lover. Theirs isn’t the only house that’s been visited by creatures that can apparently vanish. Is it just ingenious local teenagers staging a protest against Cass’s father’s windfarm, or is something more sinister going on? Then a young man disappears, leaving only a trail of footprints into the middle of a snowy field... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/269f16de-d5de-4023-9fee-d6013a5654c4/snow+hills+sound+PL.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery Looking towards Papa Little and Ronas Hill from the Aith-Voe road. The 'second' loch is the Sound of Houbansetter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/0f31802c-0b92-4d85-95d7-eff48e21ef97/aith+scallafield.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery Aith, with Scallafield behind it, centre, and Gruti Field to the left. The valley which runs from Kergord to Voe is behind these hills. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/d4d3a08b-7881-4605-8c16-92ca46a1decc/diggers.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery Diggers on the hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/0e99bc81-15d4-4d95-91dd-92f9d307ce4c/sandwater+house.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery Diggers behind Sandwater House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/07ac1606-5d04-40a9-8c97-4a9262affdb3/14+old+and+new+voe+kirk+copy+3.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery The old and new Voe kirk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/8df49b69-ecf1-4fc6-a79c-44cc867dfd8d/bixter+voe+sunset.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery A winter sunset over a frozen Bixter voe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1fb78628-feda-44c0-807c-20f84511bb28/karima+under+snow.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery My Karima under snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/f6d2a6c1-5e5d-4697-81a9-ab006675492f/clousta+loch.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery Winter colours around Clousta voe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1b09b3a1-ab87-4455-9ec9-fd3bf4ce5dbf/frost+sunrise.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery A frosty morning, looking up Aith voe towards the Sound of Houbansetter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/626f58b6-00fd-48da-973d-c54c56448999/mussel+boat+r%C3%B8na.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery A mussel boat working in the Røna. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/ffe8fea0-c412-4e9f-8193-c62eb4282da8/now+marina.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery Aith marina under snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/26ce3710-6560-406e-839b-2b0bfcfcff70/otter+3+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery A curious otter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/17c1771f-3a5b-4a34-abb3-89a85ab827bc/sheep+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery Shetland rams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/f3f0060c-777d-46de-94e8-03a478bfe117/snow+reflections+scarbataing.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery Winter reflections: Scarvataing with the hill of Scallafield behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/a2395e0a-3ad5-4eaf-9356-c2226437e430/snow+sunrise.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery A rose-tinted sunrise, with otters fishing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/2725fe1a-071a-471a-af2c-77b300d7902d/swans.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery Swans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/cc8201b0-fb06-4f9b-8078-87f9f4f984d8/winter+light.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery Winter light, Aith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/10951dec-99a1-459d-99dc-601f91c8e5de/lerwick+window+jamiesons.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery A Christmas window in Lerwick - there's a prize for the best one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/8bf4e312-ae9a-4520-b312-2390a3dde339/weisdale.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery A Winter midday at Weisdale - this is as high as the sun gets! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/ec578cb3-3fb2-4ced-9f5a-e106a017d2e1/crib.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - A Shetland Winter Mystery The crib at St Margaret's RC church, Lerwick. https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/shetland-sailing-mysteries/the-shetland-sea-murders monthly 0.5 2022-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/fed3d7a4-1793-4cf8-a892-c0f9b3a12d18/The+Shetland+Sea+Murders+copy.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Sea Murders Indomitable sailor Cass has a weekend job as mate on board Shetland’s own tall ship, the converted fishing boat Swan. It’s a charter for a family 60th birthday, but the atmosphere’s less than festive, with one niece determined to bring the birthday boy to court over historic child abuse, and her sister equally determined to deny it all. Their mother lived on Papa as a young woman, and it’s clear the isle holds many memories for her, not all pleasant. Then there’s the stranger who’s come to live on Papa; why are the residents determined he’s not staying? The past casts long shadows – and when Cass is asked to return to Papa, she soon needs all her wits to survive. This ninth adventure has Cass exploring the western corner of Shetland under sail in a story of past trauma returning to affect the present day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456943-ETQFVQ0WFAJWIOOJ85LW/1+swan+in+vementry+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Sea Murders Shetland’s own tall ship, Swan, moored up in Vementry. She was one of the last Fifies to be built here in Shetland, and was a working fishing boat until the late 50s. She was restored as a sail training ship in the 90s, doing school and charter trips, visiting boat festivals and competing in the Tall Ships races. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456958-7CSMXVN0BV3VPGZ3J5GC/1a+guns+3+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Sea Murders The guns of Vementry, looking out over St Magnus Bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456938-FO30U6QJUQCQWQAC5O3N/2+caves+1+copy.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Sea Murders The caves at the back of Vementry, where Moon fell in – or was she pushed? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456996-UNQUG6C08KPOJZIAXB2W/3+papa+pier+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Sea Murders The ferry pier and bay, with the stacks and reef at the entrance behind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456968-FQLM5M91UM3SEMRAQEEC/4+andrew%27s+cottage+other+houses.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Sea Murders Houses on Papa Stour, up from the ferry pier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456954-ANASFHUV0KAZ56UWRNG0/5+coloured+sheep+kirk+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Sea Murders The Papa Stour Kirk, now in community ownership. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456982-ALRUBG98PAO2M1ZIQCF2/6+kirk+interior+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Sea Murders Inside Papa Stour kirk, looking from the balcony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456948-Y6KKAO4EC084DYKPZQO8/7+foula+mist+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Sea Murders The island of Foula seen from the Swan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456989-ZWBB2U68GD92RUG1GS4G/8+school+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Sea Murders The school on Foula. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456974-IF1JAEGNAQ23OI3C383Q/9+sheep+2+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Sea Murders Sheep on Foula. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452456962-BQH0F7AHWYVH6FPK5LM1/10++stofa+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Sea Murders The reconstructed stoffa on Papa Stour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452457000-A6D1ZTRO1HD1E8RH1J7H/11++airstrip+hut+copy.JPG Shetland Sailing Mysteries - The Shetland Sea Murders The airstrip on Papa Stour, where Cass had a close encounter with a motorbike. https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/shetland-sailing-mysteries/death-in-a-shetland-lane monthly 0.5 2023-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1657221086044-047CL4TGMS61HBB9ESNZ/11+windhouse+porch.jpg Shetland Sailing Mysteries - Death in a Shetland Lane Sailing sleuth Cass Lynch is home on leave when she meets Lizbet, a young singer smarting from her encounter with the ruthless world of Britain’s got Talent. Lizbet has the talent, but not the looks. Her showy backing singer Chloe got the TV attention. The very next day, Chloe dies in a seemingly accidental fall. Cass’s lover, DI Gavin Macrae, soon discovers that more than one person had a reason to want her out of the way… This latest adventure includes Cass and Gavin visiting ‘Shetland’s most haunted house’, the ruined Windhouse in Yell. https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/non-fiction daily 0.75 2020-09-10 https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/non-fiction/womens-suffrage-in-shetland monthly 0.5 2022-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1600675620436-Z84HPT48MDKH7G9YX08C/cover5.88+copy.jpeg Non-Fiction - Women's Suffrage in Shetland - Only a small society in a remote group of islands ... yet Shetland had women on the school boards as early as London and Edinburgh. The first suffrage speakers came here in 1873; the first President of the 1909 Shetland Women’s Suffrage Society marched with Mrs Pankhurst, and the second President was the wife of Asquith’s Secretary for Scotland. Taylor takes the reader from the first calls of ‘Votes for Women’ in the French and American revolutions through the long struggle before World War I – where many Shetland woman left the isles as nurses and canteen workers – and up to the vote at last. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598871870984-MY01F3WWICTY3KYKA5SV/suffrage.jpg Non-Fiction - Women's Suffrage in Shetland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598871871380-MRQ897281ILCO8TR8DH3/suffrage+banner.jpg Non-Fiction - Women's Suffrage in Shetland https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/non-fiction/the-story-of-busta-house monthly 0.5 2020-09-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599724807994-9USX5YK4NQV6ORF91EM9/Busta+Cover.jpg Non-Fiction - The Story of Busta House https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/non-fiction/forgotten-heroines monthly 0.5 2020-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599723237344-SF7OPUZNX3INSGQ0Q10Z/heroines+cover.png Non-Fiction - Forgotten Heroines https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452502119-K7DCDX4RQXEUXBYTNP2T/13+Elsie+Inglis.jpg Non-Fiction - Forgotten Heroines My visit to Serbia was an amazing experience. It was a commemoration of the centenary of the death of Dr Elsie Inglis, founder of the Scottish Women’s Hospital, which had WWI front line hospitals in France, Serbia and Romania. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599642784944-H0O5Z9YCBN5UQ0KRG3ZE/35+bread+and+salt.jpg Non-Fiction - Forgotten Heroines The traditional Serbian welcome of bread and salt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599642306330-YJ66AAR9INTWK0PLMEP8/45+us+all+at+fountain.jpg Non-Fiction - Forgotten Heroines Our group at the Dr Elsie Inglis Memorial Fountain, Mladenovacs. Most of the party were relatives of Dr Inglis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599642542786-U1LB4F20723Q5ILISAKC/98+tony+hugh+wreath.jpg Non-Fiction - Forgotten Heroines Hugh Maddox, Dr Inglis's great-nephew, and Tony Waterston, her great-great nephew, lay a wreath in the hospital she established at Lazarevacs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452502114-J57QI3JB84N1JL95EKLB/14+planting+tree+me.jpg Non-Fiction - Forgotten Heroines Planting a tree in the Banje Baste Hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599642412881-T0ZI3QC9HHT0LMFPSMPA/51+children+dancing.jpg Non-Fiction - Forgotten Heroines A children's dance group in traditional costume. We saw some wonderful exhibitions of dancing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452502105-NSRUCFRP9SM3Z6YV2R3P/15+eh+haverfield+portrait.jpg Non-Fiction - Forgotten Heroines Evelina Haverfield, head of Dr Inglis’s ambulance drivers, returned to Serbia after the war and founded an orphanage. The woman standing by the portrait is the grand-daughter of the little boy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452502126-DHQQK6RNOD9AS67EA3IL/15+swh+graves+eliz+ross+copy.jpg Non-Fiction - Forgotten Heroines We laid white roses on the graves of three Scottish women who died of typhus soon after their arrival in Serbia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1599643037798-SGPDOEPGPS75SXWWV168/229+student+memorial.jpg Non-Fiction - Forgotten Heroines This memorial, in a park of memorials marking mass graves, was to 290 students and their teachers who were shot by the occupying German army as a reprisal for a Resistance ambush in which 29 German soldiers died. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598452502098-3BV4QXPHRYMNV1H1EGB4/16+me+serb+hat.jpg Non-Fiction - Forgotten Heroines Wearing the traditional Serbian hat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598870992883-GIT5W5ER182DS0WYRMWH/ysabel.jpg Non-Fiction - Forgotten Heroines Aunt Ysabel as I remember her in the West Highlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598870996260-L72WDD2JA4RZB6B0AB4G/painting.jpg Non-Fiction - Forgotten Heroines Birbeck’s watercolour sketch of ‘The road to the Front - shelling ahead. https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/non-fiction/family-books monthly 0.5 2020-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598868434135-SKQ9422O57TQ7E03X46T/family.jpg Non-Fiction - Family Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598868432737-P0994ENLCUAO5OYP9ZJG/Cockenzie.jpg Non-Fiction - Family Books https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/drama daily 0.75 2020-09-17 https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/drama/pantomimes monthly 0.5 2022-07-07 https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/drama/murder-mysteries monthly 0.5 2022-07-07 https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/drama/plays monthly 0.5 2022-07-07 https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/drama/drama-festival-plays monthly 0.5 2022-07-07 https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/younger-readers daily 0.75 2020-09-01 https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/younger-readers/little-dinosaur-gets-lost monthly 0.5 2022-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598957942696-3865O8P6ITLS3HC8GR0J/litttle%2Bdino.jpg Younger Readers - Little Dinosaur Gets Lost https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/anthologies daily 0.75 2020-09-19 https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/anthologies/true-crime monthly 0.5 2020-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1600327978861-ID2NWFMQ33EQF3SL4HX7/truly-criminal.jpg Anthologies - True Crime https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/anthologies/cass-short-stories monthly 0.5 2020-09-16 https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/anthologies/wastside-noir monthly 0.5 2020-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598957795200-HM8KAPV3A19MMQ6T4COM/wast.jpg Anthologies - Wastside Noir https://www.marsalitaylor.co.uk/anthologies/wirds-fae-da-wastside monthly 0.5 2020-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4672cdc4aa536428394dc1/1598957826505-5IPBLLOXSHNYT0JRWSM7/waast1.jpg Anthologies - Wirds fae da Wastside