Storm

A storm-tossed crossing on the North Sea; a catastrophic ferry accident: hundreds dead. DCI Kate Beauchamp is one of the survivors but her ferocious fight to stay alive some one of her friends died; a terror of water: a frozen inner core that never seems to melt. Hoping to exorcise her demons, Kate insists on leading the hunt for a murderer who has left a unique calling card on his victim's body: a poisonous snake. Into this emotional cauldron steps the last man on earth Kate wants to see - her estranged father. Frank, in Aberdeen to conduct the inquiry into the sinking. In a sweltering heat wave, Kate and Frank conduct their highly pressured investigations. But for both of them, danger is approaching fast - a vortex of violence which will sweep them up and endanger is approaching fast - vortex of violence which will sweep them up and endanger their very lives. Elemental rage, bloody Greek myth, man's capacity for cruelty, the insane imaginings of a killer, all intermingle in Storm to create a novel of stunning ferocity.