DEADLY SHORES

Two ships in the night. Another dead body. No safe harbour.

The tip-off comes just as the Christmas roast is being served. Smugglers coming into a boatyard in Bangor. Detectives Asha Harvey and Aaron Birch are sent in to investigate. It means being pulled away from pulling crackers, but in truth they're both a bit relieved. Chief Superintendent Yvonne Patterson has been side-lining them lately - and this case could be big.

The illicit cargo is long gone by the time Asha and Aaron arrive, but local man Phil Johnston is caught on the boatyard's CCTV. The same Phil Johnston who's broken into and planted a brick of cocaine in the boatyard manager's house. But before anyone can declare it case closed, the driver who delivered the boat is found murdered in his hotel room.

Harvey and Birch have found themselves caught in a deadly storm. Will they sink or swim?

Kerry Buchanan lives amid the rolling County Down hills that feature in her debut crime series. When she isn't writing, Kerry performs her work at literary events, participates in literary panels, and works with new writers. She is disabled, passionate about sailing, and attempting to outwit the slugs in her vegetable patch. Generally, the slugs win.