Book description
When the luxury yacht Helen Brooks was last seen on is found
abandoned amid the treacherous marshlands of the Humber Estuary, foul
play is suspected. However, in the absence of a body, nothing can be
proven. The owner of the yacht, ambitious businessman Simon Fowler,
seems unprepared even to offer any sort of explanation as to what
Helen was doing on board.
A year later, Hull private investigator Leo Rivers is approached by
Alison Brooks, Helen's mother, to investigate both the background to
this disappearance and Fowler. Rivers is drawn through a long, hot
summer into a world of human trafficking and governmental corruption
at every turn. In the stifling heat there are many questions and few
people prepared to offer adequate answers. Each unravelled piece of
the mystery moves Rivers further from the vanished girl and deeper
into a web of exploitation, greed, temptation, revenge and violence,
from which even he is unable to extricate himself without unforeseen
and tragic consequences...
Robert Edric was born in 1956. His novels include
Winter Garden
(1985 James Tait Black Prize winner),
A New Ice Age
(1986 runner-up for the Guardian Fiction Prize),
A Lunar Eclipse
,
The Earth Made of Glass
,
Elysium
,
In Desolate Heaven
,
The Sword Cabinet
,
The Book of the Heathen
(shortlisted for the 2001 WH Smith Literary Award) and
Peacetime
(longlisted for the Booker Prize 2002).
Cradle Song
and
Siren Song are
the first two books in the Song Cycle Trilogy, the final book,
Swan Song
, is now available from Doubleday.
