Blood Tide Secrets: A British Coastal Detective Murder Mystery

About Blood Tide Secrets: A British Coastal Detective Murder Mystery

The tide didn’t kill her. Someone staged her to be found. At first light on Brackwater’s tidal flats, I’m called to a body half-buried in silt, posed like a message.

A strip of fabric is knotted to her wrist. Her face is too calm. And in the crook of her arm, a faint medical mark tells me she was being monitored right up until she vanished.

They tell me she’s Rosalind Stray. A quiet care worker. No enemies.

No drama. A good girl. That’s the lie Brackwater repeats until it sounds like truth.

Because Rosalind’s clinic file is nearly empty. Her last forty-eight hours don’t exist on CCTV. And people keep calling her “Rosie” with a different surname, then swallowing their words like they’ve said something that could get them hurt.

I’m DS Imogen Vale, and I’ve seen what small towns do when the wrong person starts asking the right questions. A grieving boyfriend who knows too little. A clinic administrator who knows too much.

A powerful family that funds the local healthcare wing. A council man who keeps showing up wherever evidence goes missing. Rosalind wasn’t murdered for who she loved.

She was murdered for what her blood could prove. Because in Brackwater, legacy is protected at any cost… and the truth has been buried for decades. Blood Tide Secrets is Book 1 in The Brackwater Bloodline Cases.