Kirjahaku

Detective Norman is out of retirement and back solving murders.He's asked to mentor a team of misfits in a sleepy Welsh seaside town. But training has barely begun when a woman's body washes up on the beach at Llangwelli.It turns out to be local woman Kimberley Lawrence. Missing for over a week, but her husband didn't report her disappearance.The team's investigation hits a brick wall - no one will talk, and every suspect seems to have an alibi.Then the discovery of a missing shoe turns the case on its head.It's going to take all Detective Norman's experience to whip his band of misfits into shape to catch a killer.

A battered body. A missing handbag. A false confession?The call comes on Monday afternoon. About to demolish a row of derelict cottages, workmen discover a body in the bedroom of Number 9. A young woman, expensively dressed in designer clothes. It's a mystery what she was doing there.She's been badly beaten. But with no handbag or phone to be found, her identity remains unknown.Then an elderly man comes forward claiming to be the killer.Case closed, it would appear. But there are things about the old man's story that don't add up. Detective Norman isn't convinced.Then a second body is discovered in a skip behind the cottages - and the case takes a disturbing new twist.Norman and his team are in a race against time to uncover the truth before more bodies turn up.This absolutely gripping detective mystery full of twists and turns is perfect for fans of Rachel McLean, J.D. Kirk, Pauline Rowson, Elly Griffiths, Matt Brolly and Simon McCleave.

A lonely widower. A body in a stream. An impossible puzzle. It's an ordinary Tuesday morning when pensioner Alun Edwards turns up at Llangwelli station. He doesn't want to make a fuss but he's worried about his friend Gareth. Every Monday, they meet up for a game of chess. But Gareth wasn't at home yesterday. He's not answering his phone - and he's left his dog behind. He'd never do that. Detective Norman searches Gareth's cottage - and finds a woman's photograph, torn to shreds and dumped in the bin. The next day, the body of an elderly man is discovered in a stream under an old railway bridge. The name on his bus pass is Gareth Jenkins. But that's impossible. According to the pathologist, the body has been in the water at least three or four days. And Gareth was seen walking his dog, just two days ago. Norman is facing an impossible puzzle. And what is the secret behind the woman in the photograph . . . ?