Thomas Maitland has returned to Dorset. After an interlude in Venice with an Italian architect, he's seen a ruined chapel by the sea for sale and he imagines a new life with his dog and his woman -- without the death and distress of his old police job. But after a tragic encounter with the land owner whose daughter is selling the property, two people are dead and Thomas is dragged back into investigation.

He finds these new deaths are strangely connected to his old life, and the discovery of a child's bones in his former neighbour's garden...



Under the names Elizabeth McGregor and Elizabeth Cooke, EM Scott has been writing for thirty years and has some 15 novels and one non-fiction work to her name, as well as over a hundred published short stories. Although she has worked in various genres, crime is her first love. She lives in Dorset.