The Ghost Fleet Murders

Book 11 in the bestselling Homefront Sleuths series—the WWII cozy mysteries listeners call "Miss Read meets Foyle's War."

A faded seaside resort. A secret fleet of phantom ships. And murder on the cliff path.

August 1942. Crofter's Green's favorite sleuths are headed for the Kent coast—where one of Britain's strangest wartime secrets lies hidden behind shuttered boarding houses and blacked-out promenades.

Off the cliffs of Folkestone, just twenty-one miles from enemy territory, a mysterious "ghost fleet" rides at anchor: a flotilla of ships built from wood and canvas, designed to convince Hitler that invasion may come at any moment.

But when a Coast Watcher is found murdered on a lonely cliff path, Inspector Nigel Brewster and Evie Harris—engaged at last, their wedding only weeks away—go undercover, Evie posing as Nigel's official driver, to hunt a double agent determined to expose the fleet as a fraud. If the truth reaches Germany, the consequences could be catastrophic.

Back in Crofter's Green, Alice, Dorothy, and Blake are meant to be celebrating the arrival of Katherine's new baby. Instead, a second death—and a trail of baffling clues—suggests the danger reaches far beyond the coast.

As blackouts darken the promenade and suspicion spreads through boarding houses, tea rooms, and cliff-top lookouts, the Homefront Sleuths must catch a killer before Britain's boldest wartime deception is exposed.

Warm, twisty, and clue-fair—a complete, standalone mystery with no cliffhanger and no graphic violence. Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Rhys Bowen, and Jacqueline Winspear.