Devil's Table: The Isles of Scilly Mysteries: 5

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THE ISLES OF SCILLY MYSTERIES # 5

'An absolute master of pace, plotting and character'ELLY GRIFFITHS

A MISSING CHILD
St Martins is shrouded in bitterly cold fog when Jade Minear and her twin brother, Ethan, are attacked in a field, late at night. Ethan manages to return home but the shocking events of Jades disappearance have rendered him mute.

A LONG-HELD GRUDGE
On a small island where there are few places a child can hide, DI Ben Kitto must battle the elements to search for Jade. When his investigation reveals that the Minear family have many enemies on the island, Kitto grows increasingly worried that Jade is in danger.

A KILLER HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT . . .
Meanwhile, someone on the island knows exactly where the girl is. Someone with a deep-seated hatred of Jade's family. To find the truth, Kitto must investigate the lives of the people he has known all of his life. Because one of them is lying and it isnt long until a body is found . . .

PRAISE FOR KATE RHODES:

Gripping, clever and impossible to put down. Ive been a Kate Rhodes fan for years and in Ben Kitto she has created a detective who is just as complex and compelling as Kates elegant plotting and stunning prose. The claustrophobia and paranoia of the island are so brilliant evoked, I could almost feel the tide encroaching as time ran out to find the killer'ERIN KELLY

Absorbing and complex,Hell Baykept me guessinguntil the final pagesRACHEL ABBOTT

'A vividly realised protagonistwhose complex and harrowing history rivals the central crime storyline'SOPHIE HANNAH

'Beautifully written and expertly plotted; this is a masterclass'GUARDIAN

'Expertly weaves a sense of place and character into a tense and intriguing story'METRO

'Rhodes doesa superb job of balancing a portrayal of a tiny community oppressed by secretswith an uplifting evocation of setting'Jake Kerridge,SUNDAY EXPRESS

The whole book tingles with tension. I hope it does for the Scilly Isles what Ann Cleeves did for Shetland'MEL MCGRATH

'I love reading Kate's booksin the way I love reading Sophie Hannah a poet writing crime fiction is a great thing . . . It is at once a locked-room mystery, a story of the returning hero, and an examination of fear and abuse.It has the air of a twenty-first century Agatha Christie'JULIA CROUCH

Author Bio

Kate Rhodes is an acclaimed crime novelist and an award-winning poet. She lives in Cambridge with her husband, the writer and film-maker, Dave Pescod. She visited the Scilly Isles every year as a child which gave her the idea for this new series. She is one of the founders of the Killer Women writing group.