The Sunshine Man

‘The week I shot a man clean through the head began like any other . . .’

Birdie Keller wakes up one freezing January morning to hear that her sister’s killer has been freed from jail. Birdie leaves for London with a pistol and a plan: to find this man and make him pay. She’s been waiting two decades to get him, biding her time: here, at last, revenge.

So begins a cat-and-mouse chase that takes Birdie from the grit and grime of city nicks, to wild and windswept moors, to the savage beauty of the Cornish coast, and, finally, to Devon, her homeland, back to the place where it all began – as she vows to finish the story.

But every story has two sides. Because Jimmy Maguire, the man she’s after, knew Birdie a long time ago, in a life she’d sooner forget. They’ve got history, and he isn’t the only one with a secret.

As Jimmy travels south to face his past - a tangled web of family ties and broken bonds – he can sense that something is hunting him. Birdie lingers there in the darkness, but so does a terrible truth he’s run from all these years – one he’s never had the courage to confront . . .

The Sunshine Man is the suspenseful new novel from Emma Stonex, bestselling author of The Lamplighters.