The Dead Will Beckon

Detective Inspector Marc Fagan has seen it all during his four decade stint with Merseyside homicide unit. But his most recent investigation, involving the vicious torture and murder of a six-year-old boy, pushes Fagan over the edge.

When a position for DI becomes available in Monmouthshire, South Wales, Fagan applies for a transfer to Gwent Police. He moves back to the town where he spent the first twenty years of his life, Abergavenny. A town where he was exiled from in 1985.

Hoping for a stroll down memory lane, Fagan’s world is turned upside down when the body of an old flame from thirty-eight years ago turns up dead in the local park. A suspect is quickly arrested and questioned about the murder. But when police are forced to release the suspect, Fagan unravels a dark past that has haunted Abergavenny for decades.

In order to catch the killer Fagan must exorcise ghosts from his own past. But in doing so, he reveals secrets that could tear the local community apart.

Set in the Welsh Market town of Abergavenny, The Dead Will Beckon is a classic tale of homecoming, lost love, murder and redemption. It is the first in a series of stories featuring the Welsh detective.