The Hollow Tide

When Cara Eliot picks her way down the shale slope toward the derelict oyster house on a wind-scoured estuary, she expects nothing more than a quiet walk on a pewter-colored afternoon. What the receding tide reveals changes everything , a discovery that drags the unsolved disappearance of Iris Chatwin back into the light after years of village silence. As anonymous threats begin arriving for Rosalind Pryce, the last person to see Iris alive, Cara finds herself drawn into a web of old alliances between the Chatwin brothers, the enigmatic Dr. Saanvi Larkin, and the outsiders Jonah and Petra Brine, whose interest in the case is anything but innocent. Clues surface in faded photographs, misplaced documents, and the half-remembered confessions of a village that has agreed to forget. With every layer of the past Cara uncovers, the danger closes in , someone is watching the investigation from the salt marshes, and they are willing to silence anyone who threatens to expose what really happened the night the tide came in. The estuary holds its secrets close, but the hollow tide is turning, and the truth is about to be dragged, gasping, into the open.