Description
On a dark night on a small island off the coast of Maine, a shot is heard and a fisherman disappears. Despite the absence of a body, Ella Young is accused of murder, and it falls to Matt Hones, the town’s lawyer, to uncover the truth that will clear the woman he’s in love with.
The investigation is soon caught up in the rivalries of local politics as it becomes clear that some people would like to see Ella out of the way. Opinions are polarised and motives blurred when the reappearance of valuable Bluefin tuna in the gulf, along with their natural predators, a pod of orcas, pitches the entire town into the heart of an explosive drama, the outcome of which threatens not only Ella’s life, but that of all the island’s inhabitants.
‘From its eerie opening to the tension-charged denouement, we are smoothly sucked into the tale … This smart, absorbing novel grapples subtly with the idea that in life things are rarely black and white; and that, even with murder, things are rarely what they seem’ Daily Mail
Paperback, 452 pages. In very good preloved condition.