Against the Tide (Inspector Drake Book 3)

Description

A fisherman lies dead. A beautiful girl is strangled. Can Detective Drake uncover the secrets that connect them?

Welsh Inspector Ian Drake is back on duty but struggles as he comes to terms with his father’s death. When a fisherman is found impaled to the sand in a small island community, Drake comes up against a wall of silence. When a young girl is killed, Drake is stumped at the motive for her death. But with lots of money at stake with the development of a nearby nuclear power station, Drake believes there are powerful forces at work. Images recovered from a computer suggest a more sinister motive behind the deaths, and when one of the suspects commits suicide, the pressure mounts on Drake. And how far will people go to protect their way of life and language? Can he catch the killer and avert more deaths?

The small rural, community of villages on the island of Anglesey have a secret to protect. The dead man owns land connected to the development of a nuclear power station, so somebody wants him dead very badly. Is the young girl’s death connected to the fisherman’s murder? Is it simply money at stake? Or are there more complex motives involved? With the proposed nuclear power station causing massive controversy, the local community is reluctant to share its secrets. How far will people go to protect their way of life and language?