The Drowning Ground

A man is found dead near his home, with a pitchfork through his neck. When DCI Guillermo Downes is called to the scene he realizes the victim is well known to him. A decade earlier, Downes promise to the families of two missing girls that he would find their daughters. Although cleared, the dead man had been a suspect in their disappearance. And yet his death seems to offer fresh hope that the detective will finally make good on his promise. But as Downes, forced to flee his Argentinian homeland as a young man, and tormented by his own troubled past, pursues the case alongside a new partner, Sergeant Graves, it soon becomes clear to them both that there's a darkness at the heart of the investigation more dreadful than either could ever have imagined. Like hit TV series Broadchurch, James Marrison's chilling debut, The Drowning Ground, will plunge readers into the secrets, fears and lies of a small community. And it marks the arrival of a major new crime writing talent.