Welcome to the first book in a brand new rural crime series by bestseller Jack Gatland!
“Suffolk’s marshes keep their dead – until the tide turns…”
One body, one bullet, and a family that’s run the Suffolk coast for generations — now its patriarch lies face-down on the salt marshes at dawn, laid out beneath a wrong tide.
Whoever killed Michael Sullivan wanted the town to know.
When freshly-promoted DCI Chloe Hunter pulls into Halewick station for her first day back in the town she left behind as a teenager, she finds a CID gutted by a corruption clean-out, a team half-new and half-suspicious, and the biggest criminal name in East Suffolk dead on her patch before she has unpacked her bags. She came home to prove herself. Instead, the past has come for her first… including the reappearance of her father.
DCI Donovan Chase vanished fifteen years ago without explanation, leaving a sixteen-year-old Chloe and a mother who never recovered. Now he’s been reinstated as her subordinate — demoted to DI, watchful, and closer to the Sullivans than any copper in Suffolk.
He claims he left to protect her. She doesn’t believe a word of it.
As the Sullivans close ranks behind their smiling heir, every question leads back to the old smuggling routes that still run across the marshes. And somewhere in Chloe’s own station, something is being kept from her.
An outsider in the very town she grew up in, Chloe has to work out who she can trust, and what her father really knew… before the Sullivans decide she’s the next problem to bury…
The first book in a newseries of procedural crime thrillers featuring DCI Chloe Hunter and DI Donovan Chase, and spinning out of the critically acclaimed Declan Walsh series of books, Salt Marsh Bones is perfect for fans of J.D Kirk, L.J Ross, Ian Rankin, Alex Smith, Rachel McLean, J M Dalgliesh and Ann Cleeves, among others.