Brighton, 1957. Mirabelle Bevan can’t resist a cry for help, be it the little girl at a seaside sanatorium who is getting bullied or the strange behaviour of Uma, the Indian nurse who is looking after her. Intrigued, she soon finds herself drawn into a spider’s web of connections between an upmarket brothel, a local priest, a man’s body washed up on Brighton beach and a missing nursing sister. Attracted to a handsome police doctor, Mirabelle is determined to put Jack Duggan behind her, and recover from the betrayal of Superintendent Alan McGregor, but the police force in Brighton is undergoing a change that keeps leading her back to the sanatorium at the epicentre of a spate of killings .
Brighton, 1957. Mirabelle Bevan can’t resist a cry for help, be it the little girl at a seaside sanatorium who is getting bullied or the strange behaviour of Uma, the Indian nurse who is looking after her. Intrigued, she soon finds herself drawn into a spider’s web of connections between an upmarket brothel, a local priest, a man’s body washed up on Brighton beach and a missing nursing sister. Attracted to a handsome police doctor, Mirabelle is determined to put Jack Duggan behind her, and recover from the betrayal of Superintendent Alan McGregor, but the police force in Brighton is undergoing a change that keeps leading her back to the sanatorium at the epicentre of a spate of killings .
