The Fenland Drownings - A DI Crime Thriller #1012165

Three witnesses. Three drownings. One secret the Fens have kept for twenty-nine years.

November in the Cambridgeshire Fens. The rivers are bursting, the fog never lifts, and a retired sluice keeper is found face down in a drainage dyke with nine drilled stones buttoned into his pockets.

Within days a widow is pulled from the Black Lode and a farmer from Sedge Fen Drain, weighted the same way. All three gave evidence at the 1997 inquest into ten-year-old Emrys Pask, who drowned at Saltholme Sluice. All three swore the boy was alone.

DI Harriet Lowe has spent three years driving slowly on these straight fen roads, and she knows what black water can hide. With sardonic DS Kieran Mott at her side, she follows a trail of pencil drawings, missing eel-trap weights and a cover-up paid for every month for decades, while the floods rise and someone keeps counting.

Because somebody saw what really happened at the sluice that summer. And nobody believed him.

A gripping British police procedural with fair clues, a haunting fenland setting and a detective you will want to follow.

• Cold case meets present-day murders
• Widowed DI and sardonic DS partnership
• Atmospheric Cambridgeshire Fens in flood
• Fair-play clues and a twist you can solve
• Book 1 in a new series with a series hook