Low Water – Paperback

Monday, 05:42. A body on the mud at Cattedown, and the tide already turning.

The only footprints out to him belong to the paramedic. He is twenty-seven, a scaffolder from Plympton with a four-year-old daughter, money he owed to the wrong people, a pale band on his wrist where a watch should be, and one shoe missing.

Detective Inspector Ali Cudmore is the officer half of Plymouth’s police have never forgiven. Three years ago she reported her own partner over a witness statement in a murder case, and a conviction fell. Now the man that case set free is the first name on her board, she has declared a conflict on everything that matters, and somebody inside the job is telling secrets to the wrong people.

She has a custody clock, a river that keeps its own time, and a rule she won’t break: if it isn’t written down, it didn’t happen.

A dark, unflinching police procedural set on the tidal edge of Plymouth, and the first DI Ali Cudmore novel.