After a period of calm, a new spate of murders hits a post-war Yorkshire seaside town
Showing a worrying similarity to a past crime, a local woman is found
dead in sand dunes near an otherwise sleepy town. Her murder forces the
townsfolk to relive events of some years previous.
The difficulty
for Detective Inspector Blades is that a man was tried and convicted
for the other crimes. Does this mean the killer is still at large and
they hung the wrong person?
Diligent investigation of the crime
scene and its surroundings produces conflicting witness reports. The
Great War having only recently ended, there is an edginess in the air.
The population begin to suspect that a conscientious objector is the
perpetrator.
The last thing Blades needs is a wrong conviction,
so he is desperate to secure a confession. But when a witness is found
dead, the stakes are raised.
Who is killing these young women and
why? Did they hang an innocent man? Or will the local suspicions about a
yellow-belly turn out to be true?
THE RIDDLE OF THE DUNES is the
third murder mystery by James Andrew. It can be enjoyed as a
standalone, or read alongside the other books in the series: THE BODY IN
THE SANDS and DEATH WAITS FOR NO LADY. Both of these books are FREE
with Kindle Unlimited and available in paperback.
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