New Year’s Eve. 11:45am. Yasmin tells Rhys she wants a divorce. He sends a text to Seren to ‘wear the dress’ meaning a short, slutty dress. He runs into Dee and she hints about Rhys’ triplets and that Seren looks so much like his twins. He realizes that Seren might be his daughter with Ffion. He tries to call her and she hangs up. He starts going through is fan mail to pass time and to calm down. He gets a paper cut on his tongue from one of the letters. Ffion shows up and freaks out on Rhys to make sure no one can find out about Seren. His lakeside holiday homes are a success, and he’s generously invited the village to drink champagne with their wealthy new neighbours. This will be the party to end all parties.

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New Year’s Eve. Seren. Seren goes to the party, she bums a ride with Huw. She is wearing her super short dress. Her mom thinks she is going out with her friends. She runs into Mia, Mia is worried for her. Caleb asks her out but realizes she likes Rhys. Seren goes to Clemmie’s lodge to talk to the twins and Caleb and let the twins know they need to bring their dad a sandwich to eat, per their mom’s request. She gets upset because Rhys won’t pay attention to her. stars! On New Years Day, while the village of Cwm Coed is taking place in their annual plunge into the lake, a body is found. Who is the body? Is it a murder? And how did they end up in Mirror Lake on New Years day? Ffion Morgan has a village of suspects and each person seems to be a suspect and have had a problem with the victim. Everyone in the village seems to have secrets, even Ffion. But the deeply layered character stories, Wales and England detectives’ forced teaming up, elaborated descriptions of the area, smart dialogues, the plot line about multiple suspects keeping ugly secrets including main character, well structured development about a victim who is the worst man damaged people’s lives are brilliant elements that attract my full focus. Christmas Day. Clemmie. They do the Christmas Day swim. After, when she is feeling happy, Rhys confronts her and tells her she needs to pay the balance (400k!) on her lodge.

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I’m a big fan of author! Normally if any other authors created a slow burn murder mystery with a large of number characters, I would have a second thoughts to get into the story and I could stop reading to grab another book. Fast forward to June. Ffion is still working and finding justice for other cases. She finally realizes that her dad would have been proud of her. Seren meets her to finally talk to her and work on fixing their relationship. Seren is dating Caleb. Ffion meets up with Huw and he asks her to come home. She finally feels like it might be a possibility. But Ffion is under a lot of extra pressure. Even she wants, she doesn’t walk away from the case. She’s keeping a big secret, protecting someone. But who and why? Will Leo find out about her secret agenda?

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New Year’s Eve, mid-day, Yasmin. Yasmin sees Rhys talking to someone in a car – the car leaves and he is sobbing. She tells him they are over and she is leaving him Summary of plot: on New Year’s Eve a very rich, popular singer Rhys Lloyd is found death, floating in the freezing water of the lake, found by townies who want to swim in the lake as a New Year tradition. October before. Rhys. They get to the Shore for mid-term break. No one is happy to be there. He sees Mia cleaning in Bobby’s lodge and makes a move on her – from his point of view, she really wants it. They are interrupted by something. Later, Clemmie goes to take a swim but needs to get rescued by Angharad, who says she will teach her and Caleb how to sail. We find out that Rhys is doing poor financially and his agent Fleur has made a campaign to have Rhys send a signed photo to his fans and they take a picture of them with the autograph and post it with a hashtag to get sales stirring.A truly fantastic book- part thriller, part mystery, lots of community and relationship dysfunction, romance and police procedure and best yet, some culture ( I love to learn while I read as an armchair traveler). Celebrating our inspirational female authors - Higher Online". Archived from the original on 4 January 2017. Thank you to #Sourcebooks Landmark and #NetGalley for providing this Advance Reading Copy. Expected publication date is November 8, 2022. Mid-August. Seren. Seren has been watching Tabby and Felicia and Caleb all summer. Caleb catches up to her in the woods and they start to hang out. The Novel and Award Winning Comic 21st Polar". Sud-Ouest. 14 October 2016. Archived from the original on 10 November 2016.

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Late August. Steffan. Steffan’s business is failing. He makes a whole business plan to save his shop by renting out things to The Shore residents. He makes a rowboat for the twins to get in Rhys good graces and delivers it, assuming he has the business. Ffion and Leo head to talk to Angharad. Her boat is in the shop, it was dropped off the day after New Years. Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2016, Cognac Prix du Polar Best International Novel Christmas Eve. Blythe. Dinner with the Lloyds and the Charltons. Blythe sends Johnty to put the kids to bed with his magic touch. She suspects that Johnty is having an affair – she goes looking for evidence and finds crushed up powder.

Like the TV series Broadchurch and the novels of Ann Cleeves, this wonderful novel takes the reader―through twists and turns, and red herrings aplenty―deep within a community. Crime fiction is a whole lot better now that DC Ffion Morgan has arrived." ― First Clue Thanks to NetGalley for providing me with a free advance e-reader copy in exchange for an honest review. He's celebrating the success of his lakeside holiday homes, and has generously invited the village to drink champagne with their wealthy new neighbours. The book starts out with Ffion waking up on New Years Day next to a man that she met at a bar the night before. As she sneaks out, she tries to remember his name – Marcus. Johnty and Charlton – resides at Number 1; they have two small kids: Woody and Hester. Johnty is an investor in The Shores