The Anchor Watch

Regatta week is Carraig Dubh's shop window to the world: currach races, visiting yachts, crowds on the pier, and a bonfire on the strand.

The morning after the bonfire, a visiting yachtsman is found drowned in the harbour, wrapped in his own anchor chain. The regatta committee would dearly like it called an accident before the newspapers arrive. Róise Gallagher knows it was not.

With Oisín Mac Suibhne's uncanny memory for boats, the tide, the mooring lines, and the night's purchases at Gallagher's, Róise reconstructs the harbour's movements and discovers that