Book description
Sarah Fortune is happy to be sorting out the inheritance problems of
the Pardoes, as it promises to distance her from a claustrophobic
relationship with Malcolm Cook, and she cannot bear to be a captive.
But she soon discovers that guilt, insecurity, unrequited love and a
touch of insanity afflict the Pardoes and the seaside town where they
live in Norfolk - all a legacy of a suicide of two years before, when
a beautiful woman walked into the sea and never came back. And there
is another element of the legacy, a white-haired figure some call a
ghost and others call a vagrant who roams the beach and harmlessly
haunts the town: until he insinuates himself into the power struggles
of the Pardoe children and becomes the mysterious and cunning enemy of
all concerned.
Frances Fyfield has spent much of her professional life practising as
a criminal lawyer, work which has informed her highly acclaimed crime
novels. She has been the recipient of both the Gold and Silver Crime
Writers' Association Daggers. She is also a regular broadcaster on Radio
4, most recently as the presenter of the series 'Tales from the Stave'.
She lives in London and in Deal, overlooking the sea which is her
passion.
