Meet Kent’s Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman. She’s given everything to rise to the top. She’s menopausal, overworked — and the only one who can crack this impossible case. Please note, this book was previously published as Still Waters.

A suicide or the perfect murder? Fran’s handed a case in which nothing is as it seems. Fran isn’t afraid of heights. But the sight of the fifth-floor balcony at the Mondiale, Hythe’s most luxurious seaside hotel, still makes her shudder. Ten days ago, a guest plummeted to his death over this very rail, for reasons no one can fathom. Alec Minton couldn’t wait to retire to the seaside. Fran can’t believe he’d check into the Mondiale — under a false name — just to end it all. Not without someone there to give him a push. The deeper Fran digs, the more she thinks Alec was onto something — and it all links back to an old cold case. Two men sent down for a murder they swore they didn’t do. What secret dragged Alec down to his watery grave?

Fran must uncover the truth, before she gets caught up in the same deadly undercurrent.