Slapton Sands - Francis Cottam

It's 1976 and American student Alice Bourne has come to Slapton Sands on the south Devon coast to research an event that took place 32 years earlier, a catastrophe which claimed the lives of almost 1,500 American marines. The truth about exactly what happened that fateful day in April 1944 has never been revealed. Herself a stranger in a strange land, only just becoming used to the English and their peculiar ways, Alice is determined to find out more about these farm boys from Iowa and Nebraska who came to an alien land prepared to fight Nazism, determined that the true story of their sacrifice should finally be told.
But someone is making Alice feel increasingly unwelcome. Minor disturbing incidents escalate until Alice believes she's being haunted: targeted by a malevolent individual with his own dark reasons for preventing her from finding out what really happened at Slapton Sands.