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Hazel (2934 KP) rated Hell Bay (DI Ben Kitto #1) [Audiobook] in Books

Mar 12, 2023  
Hell Bay (DI Ben Kitto #1) [Audiobook]
Hell Bay (DI Ben Kitto #1) [Audiobook]
Kate Rhodes | 2018 | Crime, Thriller
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This is the first book by Kate Rhodes I have read or listened to and it definitely won't be the last as Hell Bay was gripping and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

DI Ben Kitto returns to the place of his birth, the beautiful but bleak Scilly Isles, with the intention of taking some time following a tragedy which has resulted in him wanting to resign from his job as a detective in the murder investigation team in London but being told by his superiors to take some time out instead.

Unfortunately, this doesn't quite work out when a young girl is found on a remote beach having been stabbed to death and left to the mercy of the sea. The culprit must be one of the islanders and it is Ben Kitto who is tasked with investigating but what he uncovers is an island full of dark secrets.

With great characters, a fantastic setting and a great plot written at a perfect pace, Hell Bay is a gripping story that had me guessing and second guessing myself from the start and made all the better by the great narration of Stephen Perring who, despite the numerous different characters, did an excellent job.

Definitely recommended and I will be looking out for the rest of the series to feast my beady eyes or ears on and my thanks go to Simon & Schuster Audio UK and NetGalley for enabling me to listen to and share my thoughts of Hell Bay.
  
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Morgan Sheppard (1036 KP) created a post

Jun 19, 2026  
It's #FolkloreFriday!!! 😁

The lake maidens of Welsh folklore are among the most quietly subversive figures in the entire tradition, and I don't think they get nearly enough credit for it.

The most complete story is that of Llyn y Fan Fach, the black lake in the Bannau Brycheiniog, where a young farmer encounters a woman of extraordinary beauty sitting on the water's surface. She agrees to marry him under precise conditions, three times stated, three blows without cause, and she returns to the lake. The blows come, as they always do in these stories, not from cruelty but from misunderstanding, from the vast distance between what a mortal considers reasonable and what she does. And she goes back. She takes her cattle, her gifts, everything she brought with her, and the lake closes over her as though she had never left it.

What strikes me most, returning to this story again and again, is that she is never a victim of it. She came on her own terms. She stated her conditions clearly. When they were broken, she enforced them, calmly and completely, and went home. The grief in the story belongs entirely to the mortal side of it. The lake maiden simply returned to where she had always, more fully, belonged.

Welsh water mythology understands something that a lot of folklore doesn't quite manage. That the otherworldly woman is not a prize or a tragedy. She is sovereign, and the water was always hers. 🌊

#FolkloreFriday #TalesFromWales #WelshFolklore