Synopsis: The Bernera Claimant

A follow-up to last year's Death on the Beach in which we discovered that a mysterious community by Bernera beach are actually Clearance-era crofters who have been washed out of their island graves by coastal erosion but turn out to have only been in a state of suspended animation due to an unknown disease.
We rejoin them as the Scottish Government are taking emergency action to evacuate the remaining graves before the bodies are lost to the sea. Amongst the scientists engaged in the work is Josh, formerly the GP locum who helped the crofters avoid the clutches of Hugh Fraser for cryonics research. Josh has been replaced in Glenelg by Erica, an Australian doctor. She was always fascinated by her Grandfather's stories of his Scottish origins before he was sent to Australia as an orphan in the 1940s, though she never believed his assertion that he was washed ashore as a child to find himself in a different world from that he knew....and the one time laird who is back from the dead may not be all that he seems....