Jern Tonkoi

The old fire was blamed on a mermaid. Noah Yalland knows better than to trust a tidy story. A quiet walk in the Whealings turns unsettling when Noah and Leo Petit find shell offerings among the stones and hear a scream rising from the ground below. A dead file at the Kingsbridge Gazette pulls them towards Coplestone Cross: a fading village, a ruined house, a stopped clock, and a 1961 barn fire once explained away as the mermaid's fury.
The story should be safely buried. Instead, every record makes it stranger. Wells carry sound where they should not. Parish pages have been damaged. School registers leave gaps. Photographs, letters, and village memory all point towards a truth someone worked very hard to erase. With Leo beside him, Noah follows the trail through folklore and evidence, knowing that some secrets are not only about the dead.
Mermaid's Fury is the fourth Treggan Bay mystery: a coastal, clue-led old-case puzzle with a quietly queer heart.