DI Andy Horton is continuing his search for information about his
missing mother. However, he has his hands full, preparing for an
American sub that is going to come into Portsmouth in the coming days.
He is involved in security operations, and must check out all reports
of unusual activity.
It is while on one of these investigations that he gets a call from DS
Barney Cantelli that a woman's body has been found on the shore. During
the post-mortem, it is discovered that the she is a he.
Also in the port is a super yacht, worth millions. The owner is hosting
a charity event. Horton discovers that the wife of the owner is an old
girlfriend of his.
The following day, the pathologist tells Horton that the victim found on
the shore had been beaten and then drowned. As a result of his delay
in acting on the investigation, Horton gets a bollocking from his
superior officers; one of whom didn't listen to him when he did mention
the body.
Another body turns up in the boot of a car that has recently been
submerged. It turns out to be an elderly man who had been providing
Horton with information. The car belongs to a man who had been seen
entering the first victim's home. What ties them all together? Horton
thinks he has everything sewn neatly together, until one foggy afternoon
he comes across the body of the owner of the super yacht in a derelict
house.
Author Pauline Rowson has provided the reader with a very convoluted
tale. Her protagonist, Andy Horton, works hard to develop a solution to
the crimes in the story, yet he is unable to unwrap his own mystery. A
very good read.
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