Undertow - Emlyn Rees

On the surface, James Sawday's life couldn't be any better. Writing investigative pieces for a glossy men's magazine, he gets to travel the world. But when James's editor sends him to the seedy seaside town of Grancombe to cover the third attack of a serial killer who specializes in chopping off his victims' hands, he knows he's in trouble.

Ten years before, during a hazy, drug-fuelled summer, James was one of a group of teenagers who stumbled on the mutilated corpse of local artist Jack Dawes. And then the second killing happened - the one that still gives James nightmares.

Now James has got to dig up everything he's worked so hard to bury. And what he's going to find could cost him his sanity. Or even his life.