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Cherith Baldry

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A gentle mystery in the spirit of Agatha Christie and Richard Osman.
Following on from the author’s earlier mysteries Brutal Terminations and Dangerous Deceits.
Set on an isolated island off the coast of Cornwall.

‘There’s something fishy going on at St Cadoc’s Abbey’

The sudden death of Iris Grant’s great uncle Petroc gives an ominous new meaning to his warning about
strange events on the isolated Cornish island of Morgarrow. Amateur sleuth Gawaine St Clair will need all his
detecting skill to find the answers, especially when Iris herself is murdered soon afterwards.

There are plenty of suspects to choose between. Bernard White, the chair of the abbey trustees, wants to build
a timeshare resort on the island, aided by his accomplice Roddy Chatham. Local landowner George Pengelly
needs the money from selling his land in this deal. And then there is Iris’s ex Jake Fletcher who is enraged at
being dumped and believes he will inherit her property on the island, while the real heir is Annis Radford, Iris’s
next-door neighbour. But when a further murder takes place, it seems that none of these could be the suspect.

Gawaine is convinced if only he could work out why Iris was mysteriously wandering around the abbey grounds
at midnight, he will be able to find the solution to the crime and reveal the killer.

Cherith Baldry was born in Lancaster and studied at the University of Manchester and St Anne’s College,
Oxford. She worked as a teacher, including lecturing at Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone, before becoming a
full-time writer, mainly of science-fiction and fantasy. Her previous novel, Dangerous Deceits, was published by
Matador in 2019. She lives in Surrey.

Comparative title: 9781789016154 Dangerous Deceits (Oct 2018)

Publication Date: 28th June 2024 £10.99 ISBN: 9781805144083
Thema subject category: FF – Crime and mystery fiction
paperback 198 x 129 mm 280 pp Portrait Author location: Surrey

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