A Fatal Contagion

Oban during the COVID lockdown.

Normally bustling streets are deserted.

In a car park, there’s a camper van that

shouldn’t be there. And in the van,

under a crumpled sheet, a dead woman,

whom Angus Blue recognises.

The trail takes Blue from Oban to Mull

and to a picturesque village ruined by

reckless building. And the realisation

that disease comes in many forms.