Synopses & Reviews
An idyllic island holds a dark secret . . . - On a hot August day in 1994, 76 holidaymakers travel to an island off the North Norfolk coast. Only 75 return alive – a young man is murdered, the case left unsolved. Twenty years later, using state-of-the-art forensics, the DNA results of a bloodsoaked towel prompts DI Peter Shaw to summon all 75 original suspects to a mass screening. but one of them, the beautiful Marianne Osbourne, is found dead in her bed. Is there a link to the 1994 murder? DI Shaw and DS Valentine become immersed in the dark secrets of an isolated community.
About the Author
Jim Kelly was born in 1957 and is the third son of a Scotland Yard detective. He studied geography at Sheffield University and attended Cambridge University as a press fellow at Wolfson College. He trained as a journalist on the Bedfordshire Times, and was Deputy News Editor of the Yorkshire Evening Press in York. He joined the Financial Times as a page editor, becoming tax correspondent, and finally education correspondent from 1997 to 2002. He was a director of the Community Rights Project. His first book, The Water Clock, was short listed for the John Creasey Award. He won a Dagger in 2006 for the Philip Dryden series. In 2011 he won the New Angle prize for literature.