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The distant dead

ISBN: 9781788549769
ISBN: 1788549767
ISBN: 9781788549776
ISBN: 1788549775
ISBN: 1788549759
ISBN: 9781788549752
Physical Description: 374 pages : illustration ; 24 cm. print
Publisher: London : Head of Zeus, 2021.

Thomson, Lesley 1958- (author.).

Summary: London, 1940. Several neighbours heard the scream of the woman in the bombed-out house. One told the detective she thought the lady had seen a mouse. Another said it wasn't his business what went on behind closed doors. None of them imagined that a trusting young woman was being strangled by her lover... Tewkesbury, 2020. Beneath the vast stone arches of Tewkesbury Abbey, a man lies bleeding, close to death. He is the creator of a true-crime podcast which now will never air. He was investigating the murder of a 1940s police pathologist -- had he come closer to the truth than he realised? Stella Darnell has moved to Tewkesbury to escape from death, not to court it. But when this man dies in her arms, Stella, impelled to root out evil when she finds it, becomes determined to hunt down his killer and to bring the secrets he was searching for into the light...