The Lake District Trilogy part three. (350 pages).

A man is arrested at a house in Carlisle, Cumbria, after a witness reports an assault on a young teenage girl. The evidence is incontestable, the trial verdict a certainty. The man, Gerald Neames, turns out to be an ordained priest. Other girls also appear to be at risk, but Neames refuses to cooperate with the police. Detective Inspector Harriet Calder is seconded to the Safeguarding Unit, tasked with the identification of any other victims. Among the forensic exhibits is a small chalice bearing the fingerprint of a girl who went missing years ago.

I live in Ontario, Canada but was born and grew up in Merseyside, England. By profession a chemist, I worked for many years as a consultant on international chemical regulation, a role with a lot of international travel.
So far, I have written and published The Catrin Sayer Mysteries (10 books) covering the cases and career of a Welsh police officer working for the Metropolitan Police in London. It takes her from a rookie detective through to the rank of superintendent, and a range of criminal investigations including art crimes, scams and fraud, organized crime, undercover work and supervision of a major homicide investigation.
My current work is a trilogy set in Cumbria, UK with a quite different protagonist; a community police sergeant, Harriet Calder; a widow and a part-time Methodist preacher. Canons, the first novel, was published in 2019. The second, Compline, has just been released (Sept. 2023).