Murder in Treggan Bay
(2025)(The first book in the Treggan Bay Mystery series)
A novel by Jern Tonkoi
In May 1996, a developer’s envoy is found dead in Treggan Bay’s library, and a journalist coming home is pulled into the fallout.
London reporter Noah Yalland returns to South Devon to clear his late mother’s cliff-top cottage, planning to sell and leave. The Landmark Syndicate’s waterside villas have split neighbours, and after Frank Cullen’s murder the investigation narrows to locals who confronted him the night before. Librarian Eileen Thorne and Sergeant Scott Langdon see their routines overturned, while Noah—who clashed with Cullen—becomes more than a witness. In this pre-digital mystery, answers live in parish registers, council minutes, sign-in books, and remembered alibis. Noah wants to do right by his father and keep Leo, the new café owner, out of the developers’ crosshairs—but long-buried records, feuds, and a growing pull towards Leo raise the stakes. With gossip outrunning facts and the bay’s future on the line, can he find the truth in time? Boundaries: fade-to-black intimacy, minimal on-page violence, occasional strong language. First in the Treggan Bay Mysteries and reads cleanly as a stand-alone.
London reporter Noah Yalland returns to South Devon to clear his late mother’s cliff-top cottage, planning to sell and leave. The Landmark Syndicate’s waterside villas have split neighbours, and after Frank Cullen’s murder the investigation narrows to locals who confronted him the night before. Librarian Eileen Thorne and Sergeant Scott Langdon see their routines overturned, while Noah—who clashed with Cullen—becomes more than a witness. In this pre-digital mystery, answers live in parish registers, council minutes, sign-in books, and remembered alibis. Noah wants to do right by his father and keep Leo, the new café owner, out of the developers’ crosshairs—but long-buried records, feuds, and a growing pull towards Leo raise the stakes. With gossip outrunning facts and the bay’s future on the line, can he find the truth in time? Boundaries: fade-to-black intimacy, minimal on-page violence, occasional strong language. First in the Treggan Bay Mysteries and reads cleanly as a stand-alone.
- For readers who like small-town British mysteries
For readers who like coastal settings
For readers who like queer slow burn
For readers who like journalist-sleuths
For readers who like secrets hidden in public records
Genre: Mystery
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