SPOILERS!!!
Thoughts and notes about the books I am reading. My entries are not book reviews but just my personal thoughts and opinions about what I'm reading at the moment. The entries obviously contain SPOILERS.
The murders take place on the Summer's Solstice. The summer solstice or estival solstice occurs when one of Earth's poles has its maximum tilt toward the Sun.
This novel is set on Holy Island in Northumberland, a place with becomes isolated when the tide is out.