It's the fifties. No mobiles. No email. Easy to hide. Perhaps. A young woman has fled her tyrannical father to hide in the Pennines. As she stands by a grey moorland reservoir a man's face appears in the middle of the lapping water crying for help. It's a face she hasn't seen for a year, a face from her life 300 miles away back in Devon.

She runs, and a van looms out of the mist and out of her past.When Carol takes her story to the police, she meets Jim Bible, a self-doubting police inspector struggling to maintain hope in 1950s Britain. Drawn into Carol's story of rebuilding her life, the married policeman feels compromised by his attraction towards her. And he has to balance investigating a crime that may not have happened against those that have. Praise for 'Stone and Water': 'I am impressed with the great warm thumping heart of this story.the characters are subtle and we care what happens to them.gripping, complex and engaging.'.