Dare To Think

Three years into her new life as a police office in remote Cornwall, Melissa Raeburn is ordered to investigate the disappearance of two State Security Bureau officers and the inexplicable Penzance deaths of their families. Returning to the world of secrets and deception she’d left behind, it soon becomes impossible for Raeburn to distinguish friend from foe, fact from lie, and acceptable risk from dumb bravado. When she begins to uncover the sinister truth about earlier investigations in the South-west – and discovers the likely involvement of national figures in a chilling conspiracy – she endangers her own life, and the lives of those around her. In following her conscience and seeking justice for the dead, Melissa Raeburn will be forced to question her loyalties, her principles and even her understanding of her own tragic past.

Set in Cornwall, in a future eerily reminiscent of the 1950s, Dare To Think, and its troubled, courageous protagonist are welcome additions to English crime fiction.