Dead In The Water

She came to Carrow Bay to forget. She woke up on a beach with ten hours missing - and a man's body in the harbour. Mara Calloway has booked three weeks in a Cornish fishing village for one reason: to do absolutely nothing. No laptop. No alarm. No thinking about the last twelve months. The plan is simple. Read books with foil lettering on the covers. Eat chips from paper. Watch the light change on the water.
The plan lasts less than three hours. Because Dex is here - the man she came to Carrow Bay specifically not to think about, the man who runs the harbour's most charming boat charter business, the man with a smile that makes a whole town love him. And because the morning after the bonfire, Mara wakes on the east beach with sand in her hair, no memory of the night before, and the sound of sirens carrying up from the harbour.
A body has been found in the water. The police want a witness statement. Mara can't give one. She doesn't know where she was. She doesn't know who she was with. She doesn't know what she did. The only person in Carrow Bay who doesn't seem to think she's guilty is Jake - the quiet boat mechanic at the working end of the harbour, who watches her too carefully and says too little, and who knows something about Dex that nobody else in this town will say out loud.
As fragments of the missing night begin to surface, Mara starts to understand that her three weeks of doing nothing have placed her at the centre of something meticulous, deliberate, and designed. And that the only way out is to become the detective on her own case before someone else closes it for her. A novel about memory, manipulation, and the kind of love that meets you exactly where you are. Perfect for readers of Lucy Foley, Ruth Ware and Erin Kelly.