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Cal McGill is an Edinburgh-based oceanographer, environmentalist and one-of-a-kind investigator. Using his knowledge of the waves - ocean currents, prevailing winds, shipping records - McGill can track where objects came from or where they've gone. It's a skill that can help solve mysteries ranging from disappearances to murder. Two severed feet wash up on two different islands off the coast of Scotland. Forensics shows that the feet belong to the same body.

Five years ago, 14-year-old Max Wheeler disappeared from Priest's Island, an isolated but bleakly beautiful place on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. In the close-knit local community, there are no secrets - except what happened to Max. None of the police or private investigations since have shed any light on what happened the night he went missing, presumed dead. But there is one man who is yet to take on the case: The Sea Detective.

Twenty-three years ago, Christina Tolmie vanished without trace from northern France, leaving her young daughters Kate and Flora orphaned and alone. Now Flora is also missing. In desperation, Kate searches her Edinburgh house and finds a piece of note paper with just one name: Cal McGill.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of The Woman Who Walked into the Sea by Mark Douglas-Home, read by David Monteath. The daughter who nobody wanted learns the truth about the mother she never knew. Cal McGill is a unique investigator and oceanographer who uses his expertise to locate things - and sometimes people - lost or missing at sea.

Durch die schmutzige Windschutzscheibe seines Wagens beobachtet Cal McGill eine junge Frau. Ganz reglos schaut sie aufs Meer, eine gefühlte Ewigkeit lang. Cal packt die Neugierde - was hat sie an den entlegenen Strand getrieben, was sucht sie dort? Seine Neugier mündet in einen neuen Fall, als er herausfindet, dass 26 Jahre zuvor eine andere junge Frau am selben Strand stand, bevor sie ins Meer ging. Laut Angaben der Polizei tötete sie sich selbst und ihr ungeborenes Kind.

Cal McGill ist Meeresbiologe. Seine Spezialität: per Computer die Route von Gegenständen im Wasser zu verfolgen, um Umweltsünder zur Strecke zu bringen. Doch bei seinem Einsatz für die Natur überschreitet der Sea Detective bisweilen legale Grenzen: Als er in den Gärten hochrangiger Politiker Weißen Silberwurz pflanzt, um auf den Klimawandel hinzuweisen, nimmt man ihn fest. Detective Helen Jamieson von der Polizei Edinburgh kommt der sympathische junge Mann gerade recht.