The Phoenix Affair — Leslie Wilkie

Some years after the trawler Phoenix is sunk by an explosion Alan Craven is given the task of tracing the survivors. This leads him to investigate one man's involvement in the Piper Alpha disaster, a trumped up drugs charge for another and help for a dying cancer patient. When he believes his search has ended he finds himself accidentally involved with another seafarer and a wartime murder mystery on the Yorkshire moors.