by Cynan Jones
“You don’t know who it is then?” asked the owlish man.
The young policeman had turned to go back.
“No.” He had the thought of the gulls pulling at the dead face. “We’ve got no idea who it is yet.”
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CYNAN JONES was born near Aberaeron, Wales, in 1975. He is the author of three novels, The Long Dry (winner of a Betty Trask Award, 2007), Everything I Found on the Beach (2011), and The Dig (2014), winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. He is also the author of Bird, Blood, Snow (2012), the retelling of a medieval Welsh myth. The Dig is his first novel published in the U.S.
