In Hollingwick, the dead do not always stay quiet.
When the bell at the old Watch House rings three times before dawn, Sheriff Clara Holt is called to a body at the foot of the stairs. There is only one problem: the bell has no clapper.
Clara is used to evidence that can be photographed, logged and taken to court. Elias Wren is harder to classify. Murdered nearly two centuries ago, visible only to Clara and irritatingly opinionated about modern life, he has become her unlikely partner in the twenty-three days since he first appeared.
Their investigation leads beneath the streets of Hollingwick, into altered records, a hidden tide room and eight names the town erased from its history.
Someone wanted the truth buried.
Something else appears determined to bring it back.
The Bell at Low Water is the first novella in The Hollingwick Mysteries - a warm supernatural mystery series blending small-town secrets, dry humour, impossible crimes and an unlikely relationship between a sheriff and a ghost.