Secrets in St Ives : Cosy crime on the Cornish coast

Author: Deborah Fowler

Crime & mystery

Published on 19 February 2026 by ALLISON & BUSBY in the United Kingdom as part of 'the St Ives Mysteries' series.

Paperback | 352 pages
128 x 198 x 26 | 248g

St Ives in summer hides its shadows well. And as the season gets underway, Chief Inspector Louis Peppiatt is handed a cold case: the disappearance of a local farmer over thirty years ago. Among his first stops is Merrin McKenzie, connected to the troubled family and to Peppiatt through a previous investigation. But who's still hiding the truth decades later?As Peppiatt and Merrin follow the faint threads of the past, they uncover shocking secrets and betrayals that expose the darker undercurrents of their seemingly peaceful Cornish town.