Something killed Leanne Tully. An ancient evil as old as the cliffs; it’s in the air, the sea, the soil. Leanne is back, and the Devil is loose in Paradise Heights.

Paradise Heights is a seaside town where superstition clings like salt to the skin. When Leanne Tully is found broken at the base of the Widow’s Leap cliffs, the community offers a swift conclusion: another troubled soul gone to the sea. But Pearl Tully — the sharp-eyed medium (to be seen in The Bench: A Tale from Paradise Heights next Spring ) knows better. Her daughter didn’t jump. She was murdered.

With the police having buried the case as a suicide, Pearl seeks an unlikely ally: Phil Mackey, a disgraced and half-broken former detective (to be seen in Diane’s Deli: A Tale from Paradise Heights in 2028) now holed up in a rusting caravan on Widow’s Leap Farm overlooking the very cliffs where Leanne died.

What begins as a reluctant favour becomes a descent into a nightmare. Mackey uncovers whispers linking Leanne’s death to several unexplained, grotesque incidents in the town — deaths that make no earthly sense.