When Matthew Cosgrave was acquitted of a crime, he felt that he could put his past behind him and look ahead to the future. Twenty years later, he has done just that. His only grief is the death of his daughter. Matthew returns to Blackport for a reunion where he realises that someone else is trying to raise old ghosts.
Georgie Hale has spent most of her life in Coventry, although many of her family live on the Isles of Scilly.
She studied at Liverpool University before working first as a social worker, then at the University of Warwick. She has a strong interest in the criminal justice system. She is married, with two grown-up daughters.