From the best selling and award-winning Irish author Robert Craven,
A Kind of Drowning

The man standing at the funeral in bubble-gum pink hair is P.J. Crowe. His career as a detective is in tatters - he's facing dismissal, vilified by the press, and his wife's about to leave. Lying low in a small seaside town he spots a 'Help Wanted' ad in the kitchen of a local café. It offers him an escape from the public and his spiralling mental health - and it's where Thea Farrell worked – until she was found dead at sea.

And herein lies the problem: Thea was an Olympic medallist, silver for swimming, and Crowe's burned-out synapses are starting to join the dots – it wasn't his case, but his cop's senses tell him that Thea wasn't the drowning kind.

And the suspect may well be in the congregation.

P.J. Crowe is isolated and out of luck. Depressed he runs away and hides in a small seaside town. In this town, a tragedy occurs, but he's not convinced it's an accident.

A KIND OF DROWNING taps into the key Lockdown themes of the Covid-19 crisis:

Isolation, police brutality & PTSD, mental health and wellbeing.
Friendship and finding hope & a slow-burn love story.

"Ending with a scream, Robert Craven's A Kind Of Drowning is a taut, sparely told tale. With a directness that echoes Manchette, it's set against a backdrop of a crime-ridden Dublin & rural Ireland descending into Covid. Gripping, black-humoured stuff." - 5-star review

"Great writing, leads you right into story and keeps you guessing and gripped right till the end. Highly recommend" 5-star Review