Secrets in St Ives: Cosy crime on the Cornish coast

by Deborah Fowler

As St Ives moves into the summer season, Chief Inspector Louis Peppiatt is handed the coldest of cold cases - a local farmer's disappearance many years ago. Merrin McKenzie, who crossed Peppiatt's path in a case the winter before, is related to the troubled family and among his first ports of call. The question is, who has something to hide decades later?



While searching for the thread that will reveal the mystery of the missing man, what Peppiatt and Merrin encounter has the power to shock. And in unearthing family secrets and emotional betrayals, the inner workings of the seemingly peaceful Cornish town are shockingly exposed.

307 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 22, 2025

Reviews

[June Knop · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved the story and character development. Deborah has an easy read style of writing, while incorporating a number of believable twists and turns in the plot. Cornwall is a favourite place of mine and the places she mentioned a d described, and even the names of her characters, took me right there.

[Una Cottrell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Story a bit lightweight, but lovely to read of the descriptions of places in St Ives, which I know well.