Dig… Dig… Dig…
Backpacker, Soleil ‘Sunny’ Reyer is gone. Tanned, glowing and star of the Missing poster; no one thought fruit-picking could be deadly.
Journalist, Jessica Steyn was the last person to give Sunny a lift. Assigned the biggest story in her career, Jessica is on the job. Dig, dig, dig … until she buries herself.
The cold case file never leaves his desk in the same way that Detective Nick Clarkson is stuck in Strand Harbour fifteen years after Sunny disappeared. Less hair, marriage over, no sign of Sunny.
Author Coen Watson’s people are water people; his trust in it is marrow-deep – he’s counting on Strand Harbour to cure his writer’s block. Unpacking, he forces open a drawer corroded by salt air to find a faded Missing poster for Soleil Reyer. The author begins picking at old wounds.
Poster Girl

It’s been 15 years since backpacker, Soleil ‘Sunny’ Reyer went missing after hitchhiking back to the hostel at the end of her fruit-picking day. Journalist, Jessica Steyn was the last person to give Sunny a lift. She thought the MISSING poster was a mistake; that tanned, glowing Sunny would surface, laughing at the mix-up. Jessica’s editor assigned her to cover the story. Dig, dig, dig … until she buries herself.
Detective Nick Clarkson is only too aware that Soleil Reyer would be 37 now if she hadn’t gone missing 15 years ago in his coastal town. The cold case file never leaves his desk in the same way that he can’t leave town.
Author Coen Watson’s people are water people; his trust in it is marrow-deep, his move to the coastal town is aimed at breaking his writer’s block. Unpacking, he forces open a drawer corroded by salt air to find a pile of faded MISSING posters. Now, the author is picking at old wounds.


