Salt Marsh Bones

In Salt Marsh Bones, the first book in a new rural crime series by Jack Gatland, freshly-promoted DCI Chloe Hunter returns to her hometown, Halewick, to find herself entangled in a high-profile murder case. The body of local patriarch Michael Sullivan is discovered on the marshes, and Chloe must navigate a complex web of corruption, family secrets, and her own troubled past, including the unexpected return of her missing father, now a demoted detective under her command. As she delves deeper into the investigation, tensions rise within the community, and Chloe must determine who she can trust before becoming the next target of the very forces she seeks to uncover.