Berrick Ford

Berrick Ford: More than 30 years in a major metropolitan police force followed by a number of years in covert policing and the National Crime Agency - the UK's FBI - together with a love of Cornwall, bring together the talents of Berrick Ford in a series of exciting, dramatic and realistic detective novels.

It’s Tamsyn Poldhu’s first day as a police constable in her home town of Penzance in Cornwall. She already knows that life can be cruel, but she has no idea how tough it’s going to be.

Detective Inspector Rob Rego has just transferred to the southwest from Greater Manchester Police, which makes him lucky 13 – the thirteenth police officer of colour in Cornwall.

When a body washes up on a remote Cornish beach, police initially assume that it’s a suicide by drowning, until they discover that the victim had been dead 12 hours before being dumped at sea.

Time to solve the crime is running out – and Tamsyn’s involvement in the case goes deeper than she could ever have imagined.