Brand New Murder Mysterie Series
Inspector Penhaligon Mystery — The Cornwall Murders
Beneath the rugged beauty of the Cornish coast lies a darker tide — one of secrets, betrayals, and crimes the sea can’t keep buried.
Chief Inspector Arthur Penhaligon is a man haunted by the past and bound to the place he calls home. With his impulsive young sergeant, Danny Treloar, he investigates murders that twist through Cornwall’s harbours, cliffs, and storm-lashed shores — where every case uncovers another fragment of the truth.
In Murder at Godrevy Lighthouse, a tourist’s body washed ashore near St. Ives draws Penhaligon into a web of government secrets, forgotten experiments, and ghosts long thought drowned.
In Death in the Tide, the discovery of a young sailor aboard the Martha Jane exposes a network of shifting loyalties and hidden debts, leading to a drowned research vessel and a signal that never stops.
As the tide turns, Penhaligon learns that in Cornwall, the sea remembers everything — even when people don’t.
The Inspector Penhaligon Mystery series continues with more chilling investigations to come, each steeped in the haunting atmosphere and timeless allure of the Cornish coast.
Murder at Godrevy Lighthouse
An Inspector Penhaligon Mystery — The Cornwall Murders
When a tourist’s body washes ashore near St. Ives, Chief Inspector Arthur Penhaligon is called to the Cornish coast.
What begins as a simple investigation unravels into a web of government secrets, forgotten experiments, and ghosts from Penhaligon’s own past.
With the help of his young and impulsive sergeant Danny Treloar, Penhaligon must uncover the truth hidden beneath the shadow of the Godrevy Lighthouse —
before the tide buries it for good.
Death in the Tide
An Inspector Penhaligon Mystery — The Cornwall Murders
A family holiday. A chartered boat. A body that the sea refuses to keep.
When a young crew member is found dead aboard the Martha Jane, Chief Inspector Arthur Penhaligon is drawn into a case where money moves like currents and loyalties shift with the wind. As a second “accident” turns the coast quiet with fear, Penhaligon follows a circle of secrets that leads from Godrevy’s cliffs to a drowned research vessel and a signal that never stops.
Old debts, new lies, and a detective who knows that the sea remembers everything—
even when people don’t.
Can Penhaligon close the circle before the tide brings another name ashore?
Storm over Hayle
An Inspector Penhaligon Mystery — The Cornwall Murders
When a body is found on the lonely dunes above Hayle,
Chief Inspector Arthur Penhaligon and Sergeant Danny Treloar are drawn into one of the most haunting cases of their careers.
The victim’s clenched hand holds a single scrap of paper:
Pay for what your family did to us.
The investigation takes them deep into the ruins of Cornwall’s forgotten dynamite works—
and into the buried history of a family whose sins have lingered in the salt and stone of the coast.
As more deaths follow, Penhaligon finds the trail leading back not only to the mines of Botallack and Geevor,
but to his own doorstep.
For his wife, Margaret, carries a memory she can no longer deny—
and a connection to a man the sea has already claimed.
In a land where the wind remembers every secret,
and the tides bring back what time tried to erase,
the truth will rise once more from beneath the waves.
“People lie,” Penhaligon says, “but tea never does.”