SMALL BONES

If you can't trust your father and you can't trust the police, who can you trust?

Sue Hearn is planting a herb garden on the site of her grandfather's old greenhouse. She's spent the morning digging up all sorts of odds and ends already. But she doesn't expect this grisly find.

A skull.

Could it be the remains of her mother, Monica, who went missing thirty years ago?

Sue's father, in hospital with dementia, insinuates that a police officer was involved in her mother's disappearance. But can he be trusted?

So now Detectives Asha Harvey and Aaron Birch might be looking for a bent copper.

As they dig deeper into the past, Sue and Asha find secrets so dangerous it will put all their lives in danger.

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.