Mark Douglas-Home
1 SeriesMark Douglas-Home is a Scottish author known for his crime fiction series, The Cal McGill Sea Detective novels. Previously, he served as editor of The Herald and The Sunday Times Scotland, and worked as a journalist, notably covering the Lockerbie and Piper Alpha disasters for The Independent. His journalism career began in South Africa, where he edited a university newspaper until his deportation following government censorship. He resides in Edinburgh with his family.
In "The Sea Detective," the first novel in the Cal McGill series by Mark Douglas-Home, Edinburgh-based oceanographer and environmentalist Cal McGill uses his expertise in ocean currents to trace the origins of objects. His unique skills are put to the test when two severed feet, belonging to the same body, wash up on different Scottish islands. As McGill investigates, he uncovers a sinister network of corruption and violence that spans the globe. The deeper he delves, the more his own life is put at risk.
