Deathly Wind by Keith Moray - first published in 2007
Inspector Torquil McKinnon returns to the fictional island of West Uist after a period of leave to get over the murder of his ex-girlfriend in the previous book - The Gathering Murders. However in his absence Ewan McPhee, his only police constable, has disappeared from the police catamaran and is presumed drowned. The unpleasant new owner and laird of Dunshiffin Castle, Jock McArdle, seems determined to drive his crofting tenants from the peninsula known as the Wee Kingdom to make way for a large wind farm. Then people start to die. At first it seems like a series of unfortunate accidents and deaths from pre-existing medical conditions but as the bodies start to pile up Torquil and his remaining colleagues try to unravel what is going on. By the end of the book 6 people and 2 dogs are dead. The plot is a little unbelievable and I didn't enjoy this book quite as much as numbers 1 and 4 in the series but it is nonetheless worth reading. 6/10
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