A St Ives Christmas Mystery

When tragedy brings Merrin McKenzie back to St Ives, she knows adjusting might take time, even with the comfort of Christmas back in her hometown. Stepping back from her career as a solicitor, she agrees to clean holiday rentals for her friends who own cottages nearby. She anticipates dirty laundry and sandy floors, but she didn't sign up for a dead body, neatly tucked up in one of the guest beds.
The police are baffled by the young man's identity and the strangeness of his death. For Merrin, however, coincidences are beginning to stack up. Even though Inspector Louis Peppiatt is sceptical of her theories, something sinister is hiding beneath the festive surface of this charming seaside town. As the case unfolds, a dark side to the Cornish coast emerges.

Deborah Fowler's first short story was published when she was seventeen. Since then, she has published over six hundred short stories for a variety of women's magazines. She has also written seven novels and a series of eight crime novels.
With her husband, Alan, an accountant, she wrote a number of small business guide books and also several books on both property and money management. On her own, she also published several works of non-fiction on subjects as diverse as adoption and herbal medicines.
Deborah lives in a small hamlet just outside St Ives. She has four children, four stepsons and twelve grandchildren.