The Last Exposure

Some photographs hold more than light.

Nora Quinn restores old photographs for a living — and sometimes, when she touches an image, the frozen moment moves. She sees the seconds after the shutter closed. She calls it her curse.

When she arrives at a remote coastal signal-house to catalogue the archive of legendary photographer Miriam Kessler — dead three weeks from a fall off the headland — she finds a mystery hidden in Kessler's most famous image for fifty years. A girl in the background of Regatta Day, being pulled into shadow, her face frozen in terror. Kessler had found her too. Her last undeveloped roll proves it. And then she died before she could tell anyone what she discovered.

Now Nora must follow the photograph's secret to its source — before whoever silenced Kessler comes for her next.

A cozy mystery with atmosphere, heart, and a heroine unlike any other. Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Susanna Clarke.

The photograph has kept its secret for fifty years. Nora Quinn is about to develop it.