The Unlikely Partnership That Brought Scotland's Darkest Secret to Light Val McDermid and Jo Sharp, two of Scotland's most accomplished authors, have collaborated on a project that sheds new light on one of the country's darkest chapters: the 1698 Darien venture.
This ill fated expedition saw over 2,000 Scots embark on a doomed mission to establish a trading colony in modern day Panama.
The couple's novella, This Door of the Seas , is more than just a fictionalized account of this catastrophic event; it's an attempt to reclaim Scotland's complex history from the distortions of time.