Twenty years ago, Henry Evans met Francesca Chisholm whilst backpacking around India. He loved her, but when her father died, his refusal to change his travel plans caused her to leave without him. It is a decision that has haunted his adult life and why he has travelled to the English coastal town of Warbling to find her.
What he discovers is not what he expects. Henry receives a welcome as warm as the unforgiving February weather: his hotel is flooded, and he is forced to stay at the foreboding House of Enchantment; the solicitor he asks for information about tracing Francesca advises him to regard Francesca as dead. And when Henry finally hears the truth, he understands why.
Francesca is in prison for murdering her five-year-old son.
A psychological thriller of chilling clarity, 'Undercurrents' finds Britain's best female crime writer in fabulous form: a masterful mix of brooding suspense, delicious characterisation, precision plotting and . . . love.
