MEET YOUR NEW FAVOURITE DETECTIVE.
Detective Norman is out of retirement and back on the beat in a rainy Welsh seaside town.
Llangwelli might be short on sunshine, but it’s certainly not short on murders . . .
Norman may seem a bit old-fashioned, but he’s always willing to learn from his band of misfit recruits.
It’s DC Judy Lane who takes the call. ‘We’ve got a body. It’s at a house called Forge Cottage, on the Old Llangwelli Road.’
The elderly victim is found propped up in his own back garden, a chain wrapped tightly around his chest.
The only clues to what happened are a glass of red wine, a Chinese takeaway receipt – and a missing delivery driver.
Before Detective Norman can pull the pieces together, the wife of a prominent local businessman disappears.
And a second body is discovered in a seafront hotel.
Two dead bodies and a missing person: there’s something very nasty going on in this quiet little seaside town. It’s up to Detective Norman to uncover the truth before events turn even darker.
Peter Ford always dreamed of becoming a writer, but a dream is easily stifled without
support from those around you. It was only when his old, unhappy life fell apart and he met his new partner (now wife) Mary, who believed dreamers should be
encouraged, that he finally got the chance to live that dream. Fast forward a few years and you find a man transformed.
Now, blissfully happy, settled in a quiet corner of Wales with wife Mary and their
rescue dogs, P.F. Ford is living proof that it’s never too late to achieve your dreams.
My thoughts: The poorly buried body of an anonymous young woman found in the woods is never far from Norman and his colleagues’ thoughts and this new case might finally help them get some answers after a man’s body is found in his own back garden, and the only witness, a delivery driver, has disappeared.
All is not what it seems as the team unravel the true identity and history of the victim, and then another body is found in a local hotel. Is this death connected to the first one?
It’s a clever and fiendish case with lots of twists and secrets that come to light and threaten to destroy a family forever.
It’s also something of a time for change for Norman and his team, as changes from on high mean they all have to make decisions.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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