THE ISLAND TWIST
When retired detective Maggie Cole inherits a cottage on Crai Island — a tight-knit community of 312 people off the Cornish coast — she plans to stay six weeks, sell up, and leave. Then a local historian turns up dead at the harbour. Then a retired coastguard falls from a cliff.
The island points her toward a parade of suspicious outsiders: a birdwatcher, a drifter, a German tourist, a mysterious young woman. Each one vanishes before she can catch them.
Because none of them were ever really there.
Every stranger Maggie has been chasing is a local in disguise — ordinary islanders running interference for the one person she trusts most. The beloved island doctor. The warmest man in any room. The last person anyone would suspect.
Thirty years ago, Dr Arthur Pembridge made a decision in the dark. Three people have now died to protect it. And the whole island has quietly chosen to let him.
A sharp, funny, deeply human murder mystery — for fans of Richard Osman and Anthony Horowitz.
On Crai Island, every stranger you meet lives just down the road.
Genre: Mystery
When retired detective Maggie Cole inherits a cottage on Crai Island — a tight-knit community of 312 people off the Cornish coast — she plans to stay six weeks, sell up, and leave. Then a local historian turns up dead at the harbour. Then a retired coastguard falls from a cliff.
The island points her toward a parade of suspicious outsiders: a birdwatcher, a drifter, a German tourist, a mysterious young woman. Each one vanishes before she can catch them.
Because none of them were ever really there.
Every stranger Maggie has been chasing is a local in disguise — ordinary islanders running interference for the one person she trusts most. The beloved island doctor. The warmest man in any room. The last person anyone would suspect.
Thirty years ago, Dr Arthur Pembridge made a decision in the dark. Three people have now died to protect it. And the whole island has quietly chosen to let him.
A sharp, funny, deeply human murder mystery — for fans of Richard Osman and Anthony Horowitz.
On Crai Island, every stranger you meet lives just down the road.
Genre: Mystery
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