Ann Cleeves

When Jem Rosco - sailor, adventurer and local legend - blows into town in the middle of an autumn gale, the residents of Greystone, Devon, are delighted to have a celebrity in their midst. As abruptly as he arrived, Rosco disappears again. The locals think nothing of it - until the lifeboat is launched to a hoax call-out and Rosco's body is found in a dinghy. Superstition and rumour mix as another body is found in Scully Cove, and as DI Matthew Venn...