Daniel Kind and and his girlfriend Miranda have just purchased an old
cottage in The Lake District. It is an area that Daniel has history
with. They are giving up their former lives to move there. Daniel had
known a lad who lived there when they were both young. The lad had
supposedly killed a woman and died himself shortly after the murder.
Chief Inspector Hannah Scarlett has just been assigned to create the
Cumbria Cold Case team. She picks DS Nick Lowther for her team, but has
no say when retired superintendent Les Bryant from Yorkshire is
assigned to it, too. Four Detective Constables round out the team.
Settling in, Daniel begins to ask questions about the murder. He
doesn't believe his friend could have been a killer. His questions seem
to stir up a hornet's nest in the small community. No one wants him
asking those questions. The community is further antagonised when
Scarlett's team takes up the same cold case. Scarlett and Lowther are
surprised to find the body of a local farmer's wife in a sheep dip
during their investigation. She had been missing for a little over a
day. Was she the one hinting about knowing something?
Author Martin Edwards provides the reader with numerous suspects through
this murder mystery and yet gives a surprising conclusion to the novel.
A real page turner, hard to put down despite its slow start.
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