No Place Left

A girl's body is found on Southport Pier, and within the hour a patient who recently disappeared from a secure mental health facility is discovered in the sand and the February snow. Two separate finds, one short stretch of coast, and no obvious reason to connect them.

DCI de Silva and DS Barclay are called in again, and the case drags them back toward something they hoped was behind them. They have to decide whether they are looking at a run of terrible coincidences or at the surfacing of a conspiracy they believed had been contained.

With snow still falling, the trail is going cold faster than they can follow it. Then the investigation lands painfully close to their own lives, and the truth begins to look like it will cost them more than either is willing to give.

They are racing an enemy they cannot yet name, and every step brings them nearer to a confrontation that will change things for both of them. No Place Left is a Liverpool-area crime thriller from Sean Watkin, published by Canelo, and will suit readers who enjoy the work of M. W. Craven and Russ Thomas.