By Your Side

'Linda and Levi will never meet. But theyre going to change each others lives.'

In her role at the councils Unclaimed Heirs Unit, Linda Standish investigates the lives of those whove died alone and tracks down any living relatives. Shes been a friend to the friendless for the past thirty-three years. And now shes looking forward to an early retirement.

But before she hangs up her lanyard, Linda must take on one last case that of Levi Norman a Welshman whod made his home on a remote Scottish island for the past five years.

What brought Levi here? And who did he leave behind? Obliged to travel (by hearse) with her arch nemesis Fergus Murray, and helped (and hindered) by the eccentric local residents, Linda searches for clues to a life now lost. And in the process unexpectedly makes new friends, and discovers things about herself she never knew.