
- Publisher: Hemlock
- Available: July 3, 2025
Met detective Eden Driscoll never wanted a child, but when his estranged sister vanishes from her sailboat, he is asked to look after her son Finn – the nephew he hadn’t even known existed.
Resettled in the seaside town of Teignmouth, Eden adjusts to his newfound parenthood. Then Finn disappears from school, and Eden knows something is dreadfully wrong.
When Eden’s sister’s body is finally found, floating in the sea, local police rule her death an accident, but Eden isn’t convinced. She was an experienced sailor and would never sail without a life jacket. Eden starts searching his sister’s life for answers, and what he discovers changes everything.
The Red Shore is the first in a new series featuring DS Eden Driscoll, set on the estuary that William Shaw grew up on.
Preorder links below. You can also order from Foyles, Hive, Waterstones and WH Smith.
“I loved it. A sucking rip-tide of a plot, a working-boat Devon setting so fresh you can taste the salt tang of the sea, a cast of spikily individual characters and, at the book’s emotional heart, the original and captivating story of a bachelor uncle policeman and his vulnerable nine-year-old nephew thrown together by adversity.” Simon Mason, author of the DI Ryan Wilkins Mysteries and the Finder Series