More photographs of Cornwall by L A Kent

'Cornwall is a different country. Travellers can sense the change as they journey out beyond the Tamar Bridge into a landscape of wooded valleys and granite outcrops.
And to Treloar, south east Cornwall was a very different country from his homelands on the north west coast.

This was an alien terrain, a land of wooded valleys, fingers of water probing inland from the sea; the rivers Looe, Fowey, Helford and the Fal, daddy of them all. It was a sheltered, confined, shaded and enclosed land.

He was a man of the high windswept moorland, exposed, exhilarating endless horizons, fingers of land poking out into the sea; Cape Cornwall, Gurnard’s Head, Zennor Head. He was a foreigner here. He felt unsettled.

from Silent Gull The Fowey Murders

DI Treloar finds himself on the south coast of Cornwall investigating a dark crime at The Valley of the Tides, a therapeutic residential centre  based in Seal Hall, a Tudor manor house above the River Fowey.