Devon – One for the weekend

Part travelogue, part memoir. Just days after Raynor discovered that her husband was terminally ill, they lost their home and their livelihood. On impulse they decided to walk the 630 mile South West Coast Path. Living wild and free they discovered a new and liberating existence. But what would be waiting for them at the end?

When Leonard and his wife leave London for their dream retirement in Dartmoor, everything seems perfect. But then Leonard heads outside for some firewood and never returns. Nine months later, with the investigation at a dead end, the family turn to David Raker, a missing persons investigator. But nothing can prepare him for what he is about to uncover.

In North Devon a detective stands outside the chapel as his father’s funeral takes place. The day he left the strict community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now he’s back and about to take charge of his first major case in the area – a place not quite as idyllic as tourists imagine.  A body, with a tattoo of an albatross on the neck, has been found on the beach. His focus on finding the killer will take him back into the community he left behind and the secrets that lurk there.

Dusk is gathering as a young priest rides across a silent land. He must arrive at a remote village in Exmoor before nightfall. He’s lost and becoming anxious as he picks his way across a landscape strewn with ancient artefacts of a civilisation that seems to have ended in cataclysm. What he cannot know, is that in the days and weeks ahead, everything he believes in will be tested as he uncovers a terrifying and dangerous secret…