Publisher's Synopsis
"Graham Thomas certainly knows how to exploit the air of romance, mystery, and danger that still hovers over Cornwall" SUSAN ALLEN TOTH On the north coast of Cornwall, residents in the quaint seaside town of Penrick report a terrifying phenomenon - an eerie, glowing apparition that rides the surf at night, adding a weird fascination to this picturesque place. Yet Chief Superintendent Powell of Scotland Yard soon learns that Penrick already harbours unsolved mysteries. For, thirty years ago, someone killed a teenager and left her body to wash up on Penrick Sands - precisely where the apparition now appears. In fact, Powell faces not one but two strangely intertwined puzzles and a double-edged sword of menace...