
Nicholas Rhea continues his highly popular police stories - this time with a seaside flavour. As well as the normal seaside duties, how does he cope with a man who has lost his false teeth in the sea and another who wants to give away thousands of pounds when drunk? Then there's the stray labrador that thinks he's a police dog and accompanies police. During a seasonal break from his usual village beat on the North Yorkshire Moors, young Police Constable Rhea finds himself involved with holiday-makers and their problems. It all generates yet more constabulary duties for Constable Nick of Aidensfield.Ĭonstable on the Coast was originally published in 2006.Nicholas Rhea continues his highly popular police stories - this time with a seaside flavour.


Why, for example, would a lone woman stand on the cliffs and gaze out to sea for two hours on every day of her life why would a family of children ride donkeys at dawn - while facing backwards and who owned a dinghy called Daphne which was marooned on the rocks and never claimed?Ī message in a bottle washed up on the beach suggests a girl is being held hostage, so Nick must urgently find out where and why the bottle entered the sea and then he finds himself helping a film crew shoot scenes in Strensford market place.Īdditionally, he finds a party of police officers trying to be anonymous whilst on holiday, helps a magician to entertain at a tea-party and assists in launching the Strensford lifeboat on a life-saving expedition. There are crimes to solve and criminals to arrest, but there are lighter moments. At the height of the holiday season, therefore, he finds himself on patrol in the popular Yorkshire seaside resort of Strensford where a host of new problems await.


The brilliantly entertaining and heartwarming books behind the hit 90s TV series Heartbeat, one of the top ten most watched shows of the decade.įrom time to time, Constable Nick must leave his blissful rural beat at Aidensfield to assist his hard-pressed colleagues in busier places.
