The Red Shore
DS Eden Driscoll, Book 1
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The Red Shore
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Narrated by:
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Christopher Bonwell
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By:
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William Shaw
About this listen
The first in a brand new series of Devon-set crime thrillers featuring DS Eden Driscoll
'Crime fiction at its very best, a knotty mystery' ELLY GRIFFITHS
'Terrific … Perhaps his best yet' ANN CLEEVES
‘The undisputed king of seaside noir’ VASEEM KHAN
‘A gripping and wonderful thriller’ NICCI FRENCH
‘Twistier than a cramping snake’ M. W. CRAVEN
'My finest crime novel of the year' Daily Mail
Met detective Eden Driscoll never wanted a child, but when his estranged sister vanishes from her sailboat, he is asked to look after her son Finn – the nephew he hadn’t even known existed.
Resettled in the seaside town of Teignmouth, Eden adjusts to his newfound parenthood. Then Finn disappears from school, and Eden knows something is dreadfully wrong.
When Eden's sister's body is finally found, floating in the sea, local police rule her death an accident, but Eden isn’t convinced. She was an experienced sailor and would never sail without a life jacket. Eden starts searching his sister’s life for answers, and what he discovers changes everything.
©2025 William Shaw (P)2025 HarperCollins PublishersCritic Reviews
I’ve always loved Shaw’s writing – the clarity of the prose and the terrific characterisation – but I think The Red Shore is perhaps his best yet
(Ann Cleeves)The Red Shore is crime fiction at its very best, a knotty mystery combined with a compelling personal story, set in a beautifully evoked landscape. I can’t wait to read more about Eden Driscoll
(Elly Griffiths)William Shaw’s The Red Shore takes fish-out-of-water Met Detective DS Eden Driscoll to the windy shores of Devon and a case involving his vanished sister, a dark mystery powered by a wonderfully constructed relationship between Driscoll and the young nephew he never knew he had. Shaw proves, once again, that he is the undisputed king of seaside noir
(Vaseem Khan)A gripping and wonderful thriller – and what a treat to know it is the first in a series
(Nicci French)William Shaw is yet to write a bad sentence, and The Red Shore continues that remarkable trend. Expertly paced with beautifully drawn characters, William weaves a plot that’s twistier than a cramping snake into the stunning setting of a small Devon fishing town. Highly recommended
(M. W. Craven)I loved it. A sucking rip-tide of a plot, a working-boat Devon setting so fresh you can taste the salt tang of the sea, a cast of spikily individual characters and, at the book's emotional heart, the original and captivating story of a bachelor uncle policeman and his vulnerable nine-year-old nephew thrown together by adversity.
(Simon Mason)A deeply accomplished and satisfying thriller. The plot is pacy, the cast is compelling, the setting is sharp. By turns funny, sad, shocking – and always riveting
(Jo Furniss)The best yet!
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