The Waterway

Detective Sergeant Timothy Wallace stumbles across a body washed ashore at an English seaside town. When murder appears to be the cause of death, suspicion falls on Nicole Carlisle, a forty-something single mother from a village in the Midlands. Although she claims to be a professional courier, if the gossip is to be believed, Nicole is also involved with witchcraft.

Tim's life is in shambles. His affair with one of Loworth Police Station's female detectives has hit a serious roadblock. His boss, DCI Sylvia Baker, blames him for everything from the stray dog that has made its home in the station car park to her inability to link the local couriers to some serious smuggling. His talent for self-destructive honesty compounds Tim's problems when he suggests to his boss that the waterlogged corpse is in some way connected to her failure to arrest a drug baron three years earlier.

Although instructed to build a case against Nicole, Tim finds himself falling for her, and he accompanies her on a courier assignment. Days later the body of her contact is found at the foot of a cliff. Tim tries to write this off as a coincidence, but when he is attacked on the footpath of the local canal, the trail of evidence once more leads to Nicole. His efforts to prove her innocence turn into a race against time to save Nicole's life and prevent a tragedy on The Waterway.