''Tense and emotional¿A dark beating heart of a novel'' GILLIAN McALLISTER''So compelling and tightly plotted I couldn''t put it down'' CLAIRE DOUGLAS¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿Don''t miss the gripping debut crime novel in which a child¿s tragic drowning rips a small community apart with devastating consequences¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿Two children went into the sea. Only one came out alive.Introducing Sergeant Mike Adams and DS Sue Willmott, Beachbrook¿s best investigators. When local couple Andrew and Sophie take their daughter and her friend to the beach on a stormy day, they are momentarily distracted leading both children to get washed out to sea. Andrew dives in, but comes back ashore with only one child ¿ his own daughter, Maria.Joe, the son of his best friend and local police officer, Chris, has drowned. But it was just a tragic accident¿wasn¿t it?As Sergeant Mike Adams and DS Sue Willmott investigate what really happened in the water that afternoon, the ripple effects of the tragedy tear the