The Whitstrand Silence: Some Places Don't Forget. They Just Wait.

Whitstrand is a small place on the North Yorkshire coast where everyone
minds their own business and most of the business is old. For Yvette
Halvarsen — retired ICC investigator, a year bereaved of her only
daughter, newly the owner of her late father's bookshop — it was meant to
be a year of quiet.

Then Marcus Thorne, a London researcher asking questions he should not
have been asking, turns up dead below the abbey cliff on the morning
after the third Saturday of October. The tide says accident. ...