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The Wreck: A Jack Penrose Crime Thriller
Paperback
Series: Jack Penrose Crime Thriller, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 29 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A marine archaeologist is found dead on the rocks below North Cliff, St Petroc. Full diving equipment still on the body. Divers in distress shed their kit. This one didn't.
DS Jack Penrose opens the case as a possible accident. The equipment specialist in Penzance closes that option: the valve collar was deliberately loosened. Someone who knew what they were doing, using a specific tool, at a specific moment. Murder.
The evidence builds a precise case against Rosa Velarde - owner of the dive centre where the victim kept his equipment, eighteen years in these waters, and 34,000 borrowed against income from commercial wreck tours that the dead man's legal filing would have prohibited. Motive. Means. Access. The case holds for seven days.
Then a CCTV plate number changes everything.
The victim had found a Spanish galleon at 31 metres off St Petroc Head. He had spent two years finding it and trusted one person with the location. That person was 18,400 overdrawn with no income for fourteen months. The wreck was not opportunity. It was necessity.
Penrose builds the correct case piece by piece: a retained key, a logbook entry, forty-eight minutes on a closed car park, WhatsApp coordinates sent three days after the death. The evidence is there. The suspect is cooperative, composed, and still in St Petroc.
The arrest comes. The interview goes to no comment on every item. Then Penrose places a handwritten note on the table. Four words. Owen had written them five days before his death, before the legal filing, before the tank was touched.
He had already known.
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