Description

Every tide leaves something behind. This time, it's murder.

At the height of a sweltering summer, retired literature professor Annabel Lennox Deighton and her best friend Evie Barnes set out on a breezy coastal boat tour near Little Firling. But instead of sunshine and sea air, they find something chilling beneath the waves—a young woman's body, floating just below the surface, nameless and unclaimed.

The police call it an accident.
Annabel knows better.

The woman has no ID, no one looking for her—and the water in her lungs? It's not seawater.

As Annabel digs deeper, she's led to a shuttered wellness retreat, whispers of vanished women, and a wealthy figure whose reach stretches disturbingly far. The deeper she wades into the case, the clearer it becomes: this wasn't a tragedy—it was a message.

But Annabel doesn't back down from shadows. With sharp instincts, a loyal friend, and her ever-perceptive cat Persephone, she follows a trail of secrets the tides tried to wash away.

This time, she's not just solving a mystery—
She's giving the forgotten a voice.

Featuring:

A body in the water and no one claiming her A secretive retreat with a dark history A mystery where silence is the real killer Persephone the cat, keeping her paws on the pulse

Book 8 in the acclaimed Little Firling Mystery series—a cozy-meets-compelling coastal mystery perfect for fans of Elly Griffiths, Louise Penny, and character-driven suspense with literary flair.

(Number of pages: 175)