Hi! I’m Chris Hills Farrow—writer of murdery mischief, twisty plots, and the kind of stories where someone always ends up dead (usually for a good reason). If you love mysteries, thrillers, and trying to guess whodunnit before the last page, you’re in the right place. Poke around, stay curious, and don’t trust anyone... not even me.
The tide waits for no one. Neither does a killer.
When a high-profile wedding at Brightcombe's historic working lighthouse ends with a body at the foot of the stairs, Paula Langford finds herself managing something considerably more complicated than a seating plan.
The causeway floods at six o'clock. The headland becomes an island. And somewhere in a room full of people who each have something to protect, someone is lying very quietly and very convincingly about what they saw.
Paula Langford has spent twenty years watching people in hotels. She knows that grief and guilt look remarkably similar from a distance. She also knows that the ones with something to hide always, eventually, reach for their glass at the wrong moment.
The third book in the Paula Langford Mystery series. Standalone. No prior reading required.
For fans of Richard Osman, MC Beaton, and mysteries where the setting is as much a character as the people in it.
When a heated council debate divides the coastal town of Brightcombe, tensions reach a boiling point in the crowded community hall. But the real crisis erupts when a prominent figure connected to the contentious proposal is found murdered.
When the conscientious Head Receptionist, Julia Parkes, is found dead at her desk—her lips bearing the tell tale tint of poison, it shatters the illusion of genteel hospitality. The cup of tea by her side and the whisper of almond in the air hold the key to a sinister truth: this was no accident.
Are you ready for a mystery that starts with a body in the rubble? On the Costa Blanca, retired engineer David Darnell just wants his insurance payout after a storm collapses his pool terrace, but instead he finds a skeleton and a local police force strangely eager to look away. Pushed by a journalist who won't drop it, David is pulled into the sun-drenched streets and whitewashed villas of a town built on a thirty-year-old secret. Some things, once unearthed, refuse to stay buried, and someone will kill to make sure they do.
