The Bleached King

Found in a derelict warehouse, sixteen-year old Evie Garrick is dead. News of her untimely demise rocks the sleepy seaside town of Bryne to its centre, but nobody is prepared for the strangeness of the murder. For a start, how did a much-loved teenage girl end up disappearing from her home? Also, how was it that she was found crucified, her arms spread wide, her legs tied to a plank of wood, and her bleached-white hair ringed with a crown of leaves? And who can explain the lidless eye that was painted above her salt-encrusted head? The case festers in abandoned case-books for thirty years. Unsolved. Then it is stumbled upon. Roland Stark - depressed, lonely, unemployed - gives himself a week to solve what the police force could not in three decades. Pairing up with legendary ex-detective Corrin Willas, the two investigate a murder that will bring the sleepy seaside town to its knees.