Secrets in St Ives: Cosy crime on the Cornish coast
By (Author) Deborah Fowler
Allison & Busby
Allison & Busby
19th August 2025
22nd May 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery: women sleuths
Hardback
320
Width 134mm, Height 216mm
As St Ives moves into early summer, Chief Inspector Louis Peppiat is handed the coldest of cold cases - the disappearance over thirty years before of local farmer Philip Trehearne. Merrin McKenzie, who crossed Peppiat's path in a case the winter before, is related to the troubled family and among his first ports of call. In an investigation that spans decades, unearths family secrets and uncovers emotional betrayals, the inner workings of the seemingly peaceful Cornish town are shockingly exposed.
Deborah Fowler's first short story was published when she was seventeen. Since then, she has published over six hundred short stories, novels, a crime series and several works of non-fiction. Deborah lives in a small hamlet just outside St Ives and A St Ives Christmas Mystery is the first in a new series set against the beautiful backdrop of the West Cornish coastline.