Sea Fever is the sixth mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series. A rare and unrecorded sea bird captures the attention of all the birders, while right under their noses the most fanatical birder of them all disappears . . . Later, Greg Franks’ corpse is found floating in the sea, the head bludgeoned. Had it not been for Greg Franks, amateur detective George Palmer-Jones would not have been on the bird-watching trip in Cornwall in the first place. He had been hired by Greg Franks’ anxious parents to try to persuade their errant son to return home. George would have turned the case down flat, but the offer of a free weekend’s bird-watching was too tempting to resist. Now, he must shoulder the unhappy burden of finding out why the young man has been murdered. Who hated Franks enough to kill him? Almost everyone, it seems . . .