Kate Rhodes is an acclaimed crime novelist and an award-winning poet. She lives in Cambridge with her husband, the writer and film-maker Dave Pescod, and visited the Scilly Isles every year as a child, which gave her the idea for this series. She is one of the founders of the Killer Women writing group.

PRAISE FOR KATE RHODES ‘Clever, atmospheric and compelling’ WOMAN'S WEEKLY  ‘Expertly weaves a sense of place and character into a tense and intriguing story’ METRO  ‘Rhodes does a superb job of balancing a portrayal of a tiny community oppressed by secrets with an uplifting evocation of setting’ JAKE KERRIDGE, SUNDAY EXPRESS  ‘A vividly realised protagonist whose complex and harrowing history rivals the central crime storyline’ SOPHIE HANNAH, DAILY EXPRESS  ‘Rhodes is a published poet and every one of her sentences sings’ FINANCIAL TIMES  ‘Gripping, clever and impossible to put down . . . The claustrophobia and paranoia of the island are so brilliantly evoked, I could almost feel the tide encroaching as time ran out to find the killer’ ERIN KELLY ‘The whole book tingles with tension. I hope it does for the Scilly Isles what Ann Cleeves did for Shetland’ MEL MCGRATH ‘Evocative, immersive, twisty’ SARAH VAUGHAN ‘One of the most absorbing books I’ve read in a long time’ MEL SHERRATT

Kate Rhodes is an acclaimed crime novelist and an award-winning poet. She lives in Cambridge with her husband, the writer and film-maker Dave Pescod, and visited the Scilly Isles every year as a child, which gave her the idea for this series. She is one of the founders of the Killer Women writing group.

PRAISE FOR KATE RHODES ‘Clever, atmospheric and compelling’ WOMAN'S WEEKLY  ‘Expertly weaves a sense of place and character into a tense and intriguing story’ METRO  ‘Rhodes does a superb job of balancing a portrayal of a tiny community oppressed by secrets with an uplifting evocation of setting’ JAKE KERRIDGE, SUNDAY EXPRESS  ‘A vividly realised protagonist whose complex and harrowing history rivals the central crime storyline’ SOPHIE HANNAH, DAILY EXPRESS  ‘Rhodes is a published poet and every one of her sentences sings’ FINANCIAL TIMES  ‘Gripping, clever and impossible to put down . . . The claustrophobia and paranoia of the island are so brilliantly evoked, I could almost feel the tide encroaching as time ran out to find the killer’ ERIN KELLY ‘The whole book tingles with tension. I hope it does for the Scilly Isles what Ann Cleeves did for Shetland’ MEL MCGRATH ‘Evocative, immersive, twisty’ SARAH VAUGHAN ‘One of the most absorbing books I’ve read in a long time’ MEL SHERRATT

Kate Rhodes is an acclaimed crime novelist and an award-winning poet. She lives in Cambridge with her husband, the writer and film-maker Dave Pescod, and visited the Scilly Isles every year as a child, which gave her the idea for this series. She is one of the founders of the Killer Women writing group.

PRAISE FOR KATE RHODES ‘Clever, atmospheric and compelling’ WOMAN'S WEEKLY  ‘Expertly weaves a sense of place and character into a tense and intriguing story’ METRO  ‘Rhodes does a superb job of balancing a portrayal of a tiny community oppressed by secrets with an uplifting evocation of setting’ JAKE KERRIDGE, SUNDAY EXPRESS  ‘A vividly realised protagonist whose complex and harrowing history rivals the central crime storyline’ SOPHIE HANNAH, DAILY EXPRESS  ‘Rhodes is a published poet and every one of her sentences sings’ FINANCIAL TIMES  ‘Gripping, clever and impossible to put down . . . The claustrophobia and paranoia of the island are so brilliantly evoked, I could almost feel the tide encroaching as time ran out to find the killer’ ERIN KELLY ‘The whole book tingles with tension. I hope it does for the Scilly Isles what Ann Cleeves did for Shetland’ MEL MCGRATH ‘Evocative, immersive, twisty’ SARAH VAUGHAN ‘One of the most absorbing books I’ve read in a long time’ MEL SHERRATT