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Silent gull, L A Kent

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Silent gull

L A Kent

DI Treloar, [3]

Late November in Cornwall. A figure in a kayak, is pulling against the inflowing waters of the tide across the River Fowey powering toward a secret assignation in defiance of an ancient powerful family. High above the river in a medieval timbered hall, a Hollywood superstar is mourning the loss of his first born son, rebuilding his life in a sanctuary troubled souls. Further west, DI Felipe Treloar is visiting his first boss and mentor in a Falmouth hospice. The man is dying, but before he slips away he has a mission for his former acolyte and a terrible admission which will rock Treloar to the core and tear apart his close-knit family, pitting him against one of the most feared and despised men in Europe. And yet further west, an embittered, frightened old man, sits in the cold, brooding on the past and lamenting his irredeemable legacy. When a dead child is found in the river the currents lead Treloar and his team upstream to the idyllic, peaceful setting of the Valley of the Tides where inhabitants nurse their dark obsessions; amongst them a burnt-out chef, an MP's disturbed daughter, and a depraved young man with powerful protectors. As Treloar fights the growing evil, bitter rivalries resurface, corrosive resentment spills out and unspeakable deeds are uncovered, and he must look to old friends and secretive allies for aid as powerful forces conspire to protect their interests. And when Jackson Power thinks he has lived through the worst, he will face a father's worst nightmare

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