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Juror Roxanne Keay is discovered stabbed on the shore of Tipner Lake soon after serving on a high profile smuggling trial. Days later the defendant is killed in the same way, and DI Andy Horton realises the pair shared a deadly secret that someone is willing to protect at any cost.

Art Marvik is contacted by the Irish police after his old comrade Shaun Strathen’s yacht is found drifting off the coast near Ballycotton with a troubling note on board. Refusing to believe in suicide, Marvik follows Shaun’s last steps and uncovers a conspiracy that is eliminating members of their former unit.

Professional celebrant Juliette Croft is found dead on her sofa in a scene arranged to look like a quiet overdose, complete with neatly lined-up bottles. When another body is discovered on the shore at Chidham Creek, DI Andy Horton suspects someone is stage-managing deaths to conceal a ruthless scheme involving money and identity.

Retired Harley Street dermatologist Sir Bernard Crompton is reported dead on his yacht off the Cornish coast, apparently from natural causes, even as his London home shows signs of a break-in. When another man is found shot nearby, both wearing evening dress weighted with stones, Inspector Alun Ryga must uncover who wanted these voyages to end in murder.

A rusty metal box dredged from Sinah Lake lands on DI Andy Horton’s desk, stuffed with rare coins and still cuffed to whoever once carried it. A burned-out car with an unidentifiable victim and the return of Europol agent Harriet Ames turn the case into a tangle of old treasure, new bodies and painful family history.

At windswept Dungeness in 1951, former pilot Barbara Fennel is found strangled in the shingle, and the fisherman who discovered her promptly disappears. Inspector Alun Ryga’s search leads to Barbara’s rented rooms, a hidden miniature camera and a web of secrets that feel uncomfortably like espionage.

An abandoned motor cruiser washes up on South Binness Island with a deck soaked in blood but no body on board. As DI Andy Horton searches for the missing owner, a Portsmouth refuse worker, he is also drawn into an audacious art gallery scam involving stolen paintings and ingenious forgeries.

In January 1951, Inspector Alun Ryga and photographer Eva Paisley visit friends in Brixham where a young boy insists he saw a body dragged away by a ‘mermaid’. The child leads them to a corpse wrapped in fishing nets, and soon a second death forces Ryga to confront buried village grudges.

Art Marvik visits his London bank to find that a floppy disk he stored there has been stolen by a stranger only the day before. Believing it holds the truth about his parents’ deaths, he and intelligence expert Shaun Strathen follow a dangerous trail of marine archaeologists and killers.

In foggy Newhaven, police constable George Swinley vanishes on his beat and is later pulled from the harbour, his death dismissed as an accident. When his wife disappears after appealing to Scotland Yard, Inspector Alun Ryga and Eva Paisley uncover a tangle of secrets around the busy port town.

DI Andy Horton is called to a remote log cabin above Luccombe Bay where an unidentified man lies dead, yet his fingerprints match those of a stranger who once approached Horton. A hidden landslip reveals a second body and drags Horton closer to the truth about his missing mother.

On Portland Island in 1950, war photographer Eva Paisley finds a man in a pinstriped suit stabbed in a secluded cove, his refined clothes at odds with his calloused hands. Newly promoted Inspector Alun Ryga must untangle the dead man’s hidden life while deciding how far he can trust Eva.

Skeletons uncovered on Rat Island include the remains of a woman murdered in the 1980s. When a politician’s daughter who begged for DI Andy Horton’s help vanishes, he is forced to probe ministry property, family scandals and an old conspiracy linked to the harbour.

Art Marvik rushes to meet Helen Shannon, a woman he once saved, only to find a body in her flat and signs she is being framed. Tasked with investigating the long vanished salvage tug Mary Jo, he uncovers a lethal secret about its final voyage that someone is still willing to kill for.

A wealthy passenger is found dead in a locked cabin on the ferry from Portsmouth to Guernsey, and soon after a vagrant’s body turns up under an old houseboat near Langstone Harbour. DI Andy Horton must link two very different victims while his own family mystery gnaws at him.

Two fishermen haul a severed human hand from the waters off Thorney Island. The prints belong to a small-time thief, then one of the fishermen disappears and national investigators move in, leaving DI Andy Horton to work around them to expose a ruthless killer with wider plans.

A body washed up on the Isle of Wight appears to be Bradley Pulford, a deckhand who supposedly died in a shipboard accident decades earlier. Working for the National Intelligence Marine Squad, Art Marvik follows the trail through a Dorset fishing family, a missing marine archaeologist and a string of new murders.

After a disastrous security mission leaves him scarred and out of the marines, Art Marvik retreats to the Isle of Wight until an ex-girlfriend arrives terrified about an old murder. When she disappears, Marvik goes undercover for a marine intelligence unit, exposing buried family shame and a killer who has waited years to strike again.

Private investigator Jasper Kenton vanishes while tailing a cheating husband, and soon his naked body is found wrapped in sailcloth on a private Isle of Wight beach. As DI Andy Horton investigates, he is forced to conceal explosive personal information that could destroy his career.

Supposedly on holiday, DI Andy Horton follows flashing blue lights into Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and finds naval historian Douglas Spalding dead in a dry dock. When another body appears at Oyster Quays, Horton defies orders and risks his job to prove both deaths are murder.

Sergeant Cantelli’s nephew fails to show up for the prestigious Cowes Week yacht races, and a burned body is soon discovered in an abandoned tunnel at the old Hilsea Lines. What starts as a missing person search becomes a deadly hunt as DI Andy Horton tracks a remorseless killer.

Former con Daryl Woodley dies in puzzling circumstances, assaulted, discharged from hospital and later found dead on Farlington Marshes miles away. When a woman who attended his funeral is discovered stabbed on a wrecked yacht, DI Andy Horton races to connect the threads before more bodies surface.

An elderly watcher on the Isle of Wight reports strange lights out at sea that no one else takes seriously. After a woman’s decomposing body is dragged from the water in Victorian dress and another victim is found, DI Andy Horton fears a serial killer is using the coast as cover.

It is Friday the thirteenth and DI Andy Horton’s luck fails. His motorcycle is vandalised with a strange symbol, a convicted killer on licence goes missing and a decomposing corpse washes up in Portsmouth Harbour, soon followed by a new acquaintance found dead at her home near Portchester Castle.

On a bleak January morning, DI Andy Horton stumbles across a young woman holding a gun over a corpse on an abandoned Isle of Wight golf course. As more deaths follow, he must decide whether she is a traumatised witness or the centre of a deadly family drama.

Celebrity diver Perry Jackson is filming a TV series about Solent shipwrecks at Portsmouth’s grand Royal Hotel when he begins receiving sinister threats. A nursing home resident reports an intruder and a diver is found dead with fingers missing, leaving DI Andy Horton juggling cases that may share the same ruthless enemy.

A luxury boat burns at Horsea Marina, leaving a wealthy financier from Guernsey dead in the wreck. DI Andy Horton soon finds another body and suspects the victim’s return to Portsmouth is tied to old secrets, forcing him to confront echoes of his own mother’s disappearance.

Public relations star Alex Albury loses everything when he is framed for fraud and sent to prison. Newly released, he sets out to track down the man who stole his identity, James Andover, but every step he takes draws him deeper into violence, police suspicion and a final life-or-death choice.

The headmistress of a Portsmouth school is found brutally murdered on a wartime structure in the middle of Langstone Harbour, with a taunting note and money smeared in honey on her body. DI Andy Horton must sort through her many enemies before the killer strikes again.

On his second day back on duty after a damaging suspension, DI Andy Horton discovers a naked, bludgeoned corpse on a lonely Portsmouth beach. When a second body appears with the same injuries, he has to catch a calculating murderer while still fighting to clear his own name.

Firefighter Jack Bartholomew dies in a suspicious blaze just as he is about to reveal why so many of his colleagues are developing cancer. Following cryptic clues Jack left behind, his friend, marine artist Adam Greene, is pulled into a dangerous investigation of industrial cover-ups and official denial.