Some secrets were buried. Some were coded. Josephine Lark spent the war learning the difference.

1947. Josephine Lark arrives in Seabreak Point to catalogue the coastguard records of a quiet Devon village, three years after five years inside a section of wartime intelligence she is not permitted to name. It should be routine paperwork. But the village’s harbour has been rebuilt at a cost no fishing village can explain, an abandoned signal station keeps a secret in the gorse below it, and the silence Josephine finds here is not the ordinary quiet of a place recovering from war.

It is the particular, practiced silence of people who learned exactly what not to say, and when. Josephine spent the war reading what people meant instead of what they said, and Seabreak Point is speaking to her in a code she already knows how to break.

The Seabreak Cipher is Book One of The Seabreak Point Mysteries, a series of postwar mysteries about the women whose wartime skills did not end when peace was declared.

Perfect for readers of atmospheric postwar mystery, coastal village secrets, and intelligent heroines who notice what everyone else has agreed not to.