Shearwater Point by Denise Beddows


Shearwater Point
Denise Beddows
4 Stars

Pages: 277
Genre: Detective, Mystery, Thriller
Published: 9 January 2022
Publisher: PublishNation

Publisher's Blurb

Boston lawyer Dom Caffrey arrives in Northern Ireland to seek his biological parents, but soon finds himself arrested on suspicion of murder.
MI5 intelligence analyst Carole Murray also comes to the province to bury her murdered uncle. Events lead them to Shearwater Point, a stunning spot on the County Down coast.
However, the breath-taking beauty of the location hides a dark history of cruelty, human exploitation and murder. Meanwhile, nearby, a sinister, ultra-right group is plotting a major terror attack.


Review

Dom Caffrey heads to Ulster to trace the parents who gave him up for adoption to America at birth. He certainly doesn’t expect to get arrested for murder, nor does he think he’d get embroiled in an historic case of human cruelty perpetrated by the nuns at the maternity home at Shearwater Point.

An excellent plot, well written, with a cast of interesting characters, Shearwater Point will keep you gripped throughout


The Author

Denise Beddows is also a member of the Society of Authors and Chiltern Independent Authors. She has self-published, under her own imprint (Misbourne Books), a dozen titles, mainly fiction and true crime, and also, writing as DJ Kelly, local history and biographical fiction (Titanic Press). As a Chief Immigration Officer with a back ground in research, investigation and intelligence analysis, she took early retirement in 2010 in order to concentrate on writing.

Her true crime books are: Odd Man Out – A Motiveless Murder? which took joint 2nd prize in the Georgina Hartley-Woore Award for independent authors, and The Cheetham Hill Murder – A Convenient Killing?

She next began to publish a series of spy/crime thrillers, each being a stand-alone story, featuring MI5’s Counter-espionage team and New Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism Command. The first of these: The Hunt for WOTAK was Amazon’s #3 best seller in the genre, and the second: When the Grey Wolf Sings was Amazon’s #5 best seller. The third in this series: A Long Road to Revenge also made Amazon’s top 10 best seller list.  Just published is the fourth book in the series: Shearwater Point.

Having lived, worked and played in 20 countries across 3 continents, during which she was twice arrested, tear-gassed, mortar-bombed and briefly taken hostage, nowadays Denise lives a slightly calmer life as a volunteer researcher for her local history and heritage group. Her best-selling local history books (as author DJ Kelly) include: Buckinghamshire Spies and Subversives and Bulstrode – Splendour and Scandals of a Buckinghamshire Mansion. She has also had short stories published in a number of anthologies.

A former folk-singer and member of RATS (Rawalpindi Amateur Theatrical Society), Denise speaks six languages; is a regular guest speaker for local community groups and at literary festivals, and helps organise the biennial Chalfont St Giles & Jordans Literary Festival. She is married with one grown up daughter. Denise and her husband and their pet whippet live in South Buckinghamshire, where she writes, mostly in a Japanese tea house she built at the bottom of their garden.


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