A cheating husband. A haunted cove. A mystery no one saw coming.
Private investigator Slim Hardy doesn’t consider himself much of a detective—he drinks too much, gets things wrong, and barely scrapes by. But when a woman hires him to follow her husband, Ted Douglas, he figures it’ll be an easy paycheck. After all, Ted’s weekly disappearances to a remote Lancashire cove must mean one thing—an affair.
But Slim quickly realizes Ted isn’t meeting anyone. Instead, he stands at the water’s edge, reading aloud from an old book. Something about this place is wrong, and the deeper Slim digs, the more he uncovers a past filled with betrayal, murder, and something far stranger.
An atmospheric British mystery with a shocking twist. Some secrets refuse to stay buried.
