The Hayling Island Murders – DI Andy Horton Solent Murder Mystery 17

Pauline Rowson
Works of: Fiction

It’s summer. It’s relentlessly hot. The country is gripped in a heatwave that seems to be going on forever. The grass is like straw, the lakes, reservoirs and rivers are drying out. Tempers are fraying and DI Andy Horton has a missing person and a burnt body…

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Detective Inspector Andy Horton arrives at Portsmouth CID to find a stinky, old metal box on his desk. It was found in the mud at Sinah Lake and contains a collection of rare and valuable gold and silver coins from the Carolean era and Queen Victoria’s reign.

But why are there handcuffs attached to the box? Or more importantly, who was originally attached to it?

Soon after, Horton is called out to an isolated stretch of Gosport shore where a body has been found in a burned-out car. But the vehicle and body are so badly charred that it’s almost impossible to identify the victim. Detective Superintendent Uckfield and his Major Crime Team are brought in.

Added to that is the fact that Europol agent, Harriet Ames, daughter of the missing peer, Sir Richard Ames, has transferred to the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary and he and Harriet are going to be seeing a lot more of each other. Horton’s not sure he’s comfortable with that after lying to her about her father’s disappearance and the part her family have played in the disappearance of his mother, Jennifer, when he was a child.

But Horton can’t let Harriet distract him. Not now. Especially when another body has just been discovered . . .