During the summer of 1962 the Bauer family are enjoying their usual summer holiday tradition down in their bungalow on the Jersey shore. That summer though, everything would change forever as seventeen years old Isobel is found murdered. Decades later, Isobel's younger sisters, (Julie and Lucy) their mum Maria and the Chapman family are all still haunted by the past - not to mention the boy who went to prison for Isobel's murder. Except, it now looks like the boy convicted of the murder may have been innocent after all, just like Julie suspected for all these years. When Ethan Chapman's daughter comes to tell Julie that Ned Chapman, Isobel's ...  Read the complete review

The day that Marilyn Monroe died, was also the day that the Bauer family lost Isabel, one of three sisters in "The Bay at Midnight", as the title suggests, through in circumstances not made clear until quite far into the book. That day everything changed forever, but decades later long lost memories are to be resurrected. The case will be re-examined both by the Police and the people involved as the existence of a letter from recently deceased Ned Chapman, the boy next door and Isabel's boyfriend, is revealed. Was the person convicted for the killing guilty? Why does Julie, Isabel's sister feel so guilty about her death and how does losing someone affect ...  Read the complete review

The Bauer family spent their summers in a cottage by the beach, an idyllic location for their daughters to grow up in peaceful surroundings. The three daughters were all very different; teenager Isabel was a bit of a rebel who would argue with her mother and sneak off to meet Ned Chapman her next door neighbour and boyfriend, twelve year old Julie loved fishing and mystery stories and baby of the family Lucy liked to stay close to home. The family was shattered when Isabel's body was found floating in the water of the bay after she had sneaked out to meet her boyfriend Ned at midnight after Julie did not pass on a message that he could not make their secret ...  Read the complete review