Mill on the shore. Ann Cleeves. 2024.

Meg Morrissey refuses to believe that her husband James took his own life. James had been in high spirits because he’d finally completed his long-awaited autobiography. He didn’t leave a suicide note. And, even more suspiciously, his magnum opus - a record of his life’s work in environmental conservation- has gone missing.

Troubled, Meg calls in amateur sleuths, George and Molly Palmer-Jones to investigate. They soon discover that life in the Morrissey family is not as idyllic as it seems - relationship with ex-wife’s Cathy are not as friendly as Meg makes out, and it appears that James had fallen for another woman.

But the disappearance of his autobiography is most puzzling of all. Did he uncover a secret so damaging that someone was prepared to kill for it? George and Molly must try to fit together the missing pieces of information to reveal who could have wanted James dead………….