The Drowning Ground: A Novel

Out here in the quaint ceaseless calm of an English vil­lage it is hard to imagine a life beyond. From the outside everything seems to make sense. Everything has its place.My friends are open and unsuspecting. There is none of the natural suspicion of the Argentinian. . . For me its unbeliev­able in a way.. For two decades after being forced to leave his native Argentina Detective Chief Inspector Guillermo Downes has sought tranquility in the orderly life of the English Cotswolds. But violence can strike just as suddenly in the countryside as it can in Buenos Aires.. When the body of wealthy landowner Frank Hurst is found with a pitchfork through his neck it brings back disturbing memories of former mysteries. Hursts wife drowned in their swimming pool-an official accident though many villagers have their doubts. And what about the two young girls who were abducted years before with some possible links to Hurst that were never proven?. Its something truly terrible to make someone disap­pear Downes tells his partner. Because the family never know you see. Years ago he had promised the vanished girls mothers to find their daughters and as the ripples from Hursts death spread through the village there is fresh hope that he might finally make good on that promise no matter what it costs the community or himself.. With the kind of insights into life in a seemingly peaceful village that made Broadchurch so powerful James Marrisons The Drowning Ground introduces a terrific new voice in crime fiction.