Stormfront

Valerie Stone has two possessions, a vintage Jag and an old watch. She smokes too many French cigarettes, rents a houseboat on the Thames and keeps male admirers at arm's length. Investigating the lucrative and mostly legal, she's been a private detective for the last four years. And before that? Well, that's her business.Money has been tight of late, but a sizable pay-out from an insurance investigation could level things up, at least for a while. When a body is washed up on the south coast, it seems a straightforward case of death by misadventure. That is until she finds herself blackmailed by a covert organisation looking into the same incident.Silence mixed with misinformation leads Valerie, and those around her, into a very dirty storm.R. S. Sutton is now retired from running his own business. He has worked around the UK, North and Southern Ireland, South Africa and Mozambique and lives in Devon.