DS Rachel Tracey has just read a letter to DCI Gerry Heffernan, which
claims that a man in prison was wrongly imprisoned some time ago.
Heffernan isn’t interested, but when Tracey mentions it to DI Wesley
Peterson, he expresses interest in following it up.
Later that day Heffernan and Peterson are called out to a nearby
shopping centre where the manager has received a letter indicating that
some product within the store has been tampered with. However, the
letter didn’t demand a ransom of any sort.
At this same time, Dr. Neil Watson has a crew of archeologists digging
in a field, which could contain a plague pit. Unfortunately, some rogue
diggers are trying to steal things from the field at night, and in
order to protect the dig, Watson has started sleeping in a tent there.
One night he is struck over the head when he goes to check on some
noises he heard.
A day or two later a more recent body is found in the plague field. Do
they have a murder on their hands? Colin Bowman, the pathologist,
quickly assures Peterson that it is indeed a murder.
As the investigation progresses, links appear between the cases, but how
can they be neatly tied together? It will take some time for Peterson
and his team to come to the correct conclusion.
Author Kate Ellis has some surprises up her sleeve in this murder
mystery. The plague pits were real things in the fourteenth century as
multitudes of people quickly died from the plague as was the real
background to a couple of the murders Ellis has appear in her story. A
good read.
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