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1969. TURN ON. TUNE IN. DROP DEAD.
The world is throwing a party. And nobody sent them an invitation.Two teenagers climb the orphanage wall and run towards the music, the drugs, the sex.
They’re never seen again, and nobody bothers to look too hard.
Half a century later, death comes to the North Yorkshire fishing village of Staithes—and DCI Frank Finnegan is called in.
THE DROWNED
Two women are cut off by the incoming tide.Neither makes it back.
A terrible accident.
At least, that’s how it looks.
THE FINGER
During the renovation of an old Staithes cottage, builders break open a bricked-up chimney.A jackdaw’s nest tumbles into the hearth.
Inside it is a skeletal human finger.
Still wearing a large ruby ring.
THE CURSE
Staithes has always known how to keep a secret.Legend tells of two mermaids once held captive in the village. When they escaped, one left behind a chilling prophecy:
‘The sea shall flow to Jackdaw’s Well.’
Two bodies on the rocks. A severed finger. An ancient curse.
DCI Frank Finnegan doesn’t believe in legends or curses.
But somebody does.
Jackdaws Well is Book 14 in the DCI Frank Finnegan Yorkshire Crime Thriller series—fast-paced murder investigations starring Finnegan and his team, set in Whitby and across North Yorkshire.
Join the investigation today but beware the rising tide.
Genre: Mystery
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