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The Sea Breeze
The Sea Breeze
The Sea Breeze
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It's Autumn, 1951. Robert Lynnford, star crime-reporter for The London Herald, is asked by an old friend to investigate the mystery of a yacht - the Sea Breeze - found at anchor in an isolated cove on the Devonshire coast with one of its crew floating dead in the water and the others missing.


When he arrives in the seaside town of Westcliff, Lynnford is alarmed to find his friend missing and his wife in fear for his life. Determined to set about to solve the case, Lynnford soon discovers that he’s not welcome himself and the local police refuse to co-operate with him.


But it takes much more than some threats to put off this reporter. When events quickly escalate, pieces of the puzzle snap into place and Lynnford uncovers a plan that has treachery at its heart and is yet more sinister than he could have imagined.


THE SEA BREEZE is a stand-alone story within a detective mystery series based on the investigations of Robert Lynnford. This novel introduces his newspaper colleagues and friends who reappear in subsequent stories. Ideal for fans of the more retro-detective crime, this story will take you back to the past where a mystery was solved with the mind instead of technology.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 28, 2022
ISBN9781803139548
The Sea Breeze
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SJT Riley

SJT Riley was born in Devon and educated in the Wirral. He started his professional life as a solicitor in London. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and until 2020, he worked extensively with government officials from all over the continent on democratic reform in the aftermath of the Cold War - from Lisbon to Sarajevo, and beyond. This is his second novel.

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