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Giles Priestley's skull is discovered in an abandoned Portsmouth research station. The recluse vanished from a rotting fishing trawler moored off Eastney Shore more than two decades ago.
No one reported him missing. No one seemed to care.
But someone left his skull in a soundproofed chamber, where a dying man's screams could never be heard.
Twelve days later, the man who found it is discovered shot dead in a local wartime tunnel.
It looks like suicide.
But DI Andy Horton isn't convinced.
Two deaths. One impossible thread connecting them.
As a bitter January wind tears off the Solent, Horton is drawn into a web of dark secrets at the heart of which sits the coldest and most calculating killer he has ever faced.
The Eastney Shore Murders will be available to pre-order from the middle of November and will be published on 26 November 2026.
This is DI Andy Horton #20 — twenty mysteries featuring the Portsmouth detective who has been at the heart of my contemporary British coastal crime novels.
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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