The Pendennis Murders
(2026)(The ninth book in the DI Ryder Murder Mystery series)
A novel by Jack Christie
THE PENDENNIS MURDERS
A hurricane tears across Cornwall, leaving thousands without power, roads blocked by fallen trees, and entire communities cut off from help.
When a landslip rips through the grounds of a crumbling Victorian house near Pendennis Castle, DCI Ryder is called to what looks like a historic discovery: an old grave, a forgotten victim, a case for the archaeologists.
He is catastrophically wrong.
As recovery crews clear the earth, one body becomes two… then three. The grim excavation uncovers something far more sinister: young men and women who vanished only months or years earlier. Students, seasonal workers, and transient tenants whose quiet lives made them almost impossible to trace.
With emergency services stretched to breaking point and vital evidence washed away by the storm, Ryder and DS Ellie Tozer race to identify the dead.
But the newest grave was dug just hours before the tempest hit. The killer is still operating—and with his secret exposed, he will do whatever it takes to stay free.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Another in this very enjoyable and hard to put down series, and must be one of my all time favourite writers.’
Genre: Mystery
A hurricane tears across Cornwall, leaving thousands without power, roads blocked by fallen trees, and entire communities cut off from help.
When a landslip rips through the grounds of a crumbling Victorian house near Pendennis Castle, DCI Ryder is called to what looks like a historic discovery: an old grave, a forgotten victim, a case for the archaeologists.
He is catastrophically wrong.
As recovery crews clear the earth, one body becomes two… then three. The grim excavation uncovers something far more sinister: young men and women who vanished only months or years earlier. Students, seasonal workers, and transient tenants whose quiet lives made them almost impossible to trace.
With emergency services stretched to breaking point and vital evidence washed away by the storm, Ryder and DS Ellie Tozer race to identify the dead.
But the newest grave was dug just hours before the tempest hit. The killer is still operating—and with his secret exposed, he will do whatever it takes to stay free.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Another in this very enjoyable and hard to put down series, and must be one of my all time favourite writers.’
Genre: Mystery