SearchA body is reported. Then vanishes. What's more there is no trace of it having ever been where it was found. Inspector Ryga is dispatched to the Essex coast to investigate this unsettling and perplexing case.
1951, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. A scorching summer evening.
Commander Clive Cottinglea eturning home from the yacht club stumbles across a body at the bottom of the cliff lift.
By the time he fetches the beat constable, not only has the corpse vanished — but there’s no trace it was ever there. No blood. No broken twigs. No trampled flowers.
The local Southend police are baffled. How can they investigate a murder without evidence or a body?
The worried chief constable calls in a favour from Scotland Yard — and Inspector Alun Ryga is dispatched undercover to the Essex coast.
Soon he discovers unsettling contradictions in the retired commander’s story that lead him into an unsettling and perplexing murder case.
Pauline Rowson lives on the South Coast of England and is the best selling author of many crime novels, published by Joffe Books. Her popular crime novels include the DI Andy Horton Solent Murder Mystery series, the Art Marvik mystery thrillers and the 1950s set Inspector Ryga mysteries. Subscribe to her newsletter for all the latest books news.
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