The Unclaimed Berth

Detective Inspector Megan Prosser arrives in wet Pembrokeshire and finds a woman dead beneath a harbour boat. When a second death exposes missing money, false messages and a hidden connection to the fishing co-operative, Megan and her new team must build a case that survives the evidence, while her unwanted transfer begins to cost her at home.

Detective Inspector Megan Prosser has been transferred to a wet Pembrokeshire station she never asked for. On her first morning, a body is found beneath a working boat, and the harbour’s fragile economy starts counting the cost of every minute the water is closed. The dead woman kept the books for a fishing co-operative. The absent skipper whose berth she was checking has left behind a missing boat, a disputed payment and a young deckhand who knows more about the last night than he can safely say. Then a second death turns a suspicious drowning into a double murder. Megan’s new team must work through false messages, missing money, damaged records and witnesses whose livelihoods depend on the harbour reopening. The evidence has to survive challenge, not merely point in a convenient direction. As the case reaches into holiday cottages, family debts and the co-operative’s accounts, Megan is also trying to keep a promise at home. Her posting is becoming permanent. Her private life will not wait for the investigation to finish. The Unclaimed Berth is the first DI Megan Prosser police procedural, for readers who want a fair investigation, a specific place, and a detective series with consequences. The tide takes evidence. The team has to keep it.