Cwen Coed is a village in North Wales near the Mirror Lake. Across this lake, there is The Shore, a resort for holidaymakers. This area is on the border between England and Wales.
The novel is told from different points of view. It starts with Ffion Morgan, who on New Year's Day wakes up next to the man who she had a one-night stand, and she tries to slip out of the house without waking him up and having to talk to him. She had fun last night, and the man who she remembers is called Marcus is a dive instructor.
Ffion gets home to her mother, Elen, and her sixteen-year-old sister, Seren, is also there. Elen is not happy that Ffion spent the night out. On New Year's Day there is a swim that all the village takes part, and Seren says that they couldn't do it this year because a body has been found. During the conversation we discover that Ffion is thirty and she is divorced.
The next chapter shows us DC Leo Brady, who is divorced and has a four-year-old son. Leo is in the Cheshire Crime Unit, and his boss, DC Crouch, who is often hostile towards him, tells him about a body found in Mirror Lake, and he should go there. Leo drives to the mortuary to start there, and when he arrives, he is surprised to find the girl who he spent the night with, Harriet. It turns out that Harriet is Ffion, and both gave each other false names. So now they discover that they are both Detective Constables, one working for England and the other for Wales. Ffion tells him that they have to work together and forget they spent the night together.
The dead man is Rhys Lloyd, an opera singer and the owner of the Shore. Last night there was a party at the Shore and many people from the village came, including Seren, Ffion's sister. Leo and Ffion question Rhy's wife, mother and his two twin daughters, and the neighbours. They do not give them much information. Ffion checks the CCTV alone, and she deletes something, and I suspect it must be to protect her sister.
When Ffion and Leo talk to Steffan, the boathouse owner, and ask them where the body was first placed to reach the spot where he was found, Steffan believes that the only possible way is that the body was dropped from a boat. So now this is the lead that Ffion and Leo follow.
This is an interesting start and I am already hooked on the mystery and the relationship between these two detectives.
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