Carys Morgan

A holy island. A haunted detective. A shocking murder. When the body of a young woman is found on the altar of the abbey church on Caldey Island, Detective Inspector Carys Morgan is plunged into a world where evil lurks in holy places. On this small island, reached only by boat, everyone is a suspect. Carys must navigate a closed world of islanders, monks, and pilgrims, each hiding a secret behind walls of silence and faith. When a second body surfaces in the monastery fishpond, it’s clear the murders follow a chilling religious pattern.

The truth won’t stay buried. When a builder dismantles a crumbling wall in the cellar of a grand seafront house in Tenby, the last thing he expects to find is a human skeleton. The remains belong to a young man who vanished on Hallowe’en night, 1995. As Detective Inspector Carys Morgan unpicks the lies woven by a tight-knit group of former schoolfriends–a lawyer, a hotelier, a football coach, a chef and a gardener–she uncovers a web of guilt, complicity, and self-preservation that has bound them together for three decades. All of them knew the victim. None of them is telling the truth.