Aisling's journey takes her from the vibrant streets of London to the serene landscapes of rural Ireland, promising an exciting and whimsical adventure. Along the way, she encounters new experiences and challenges that shape her character and perspective. The narrative explores themes of discovery and the joy of travel, highlighting the contrast between urban life and the tranquility of the countryside.
Journalist Philip Dryden is shocked to be informed by police that his father has been killed in a car accident – he drowned during the fenland floods of 1977, 35 years before. At the same time, two unrelated cases are demanding Dryden’s professional a body riddled with bullets found hanging in the middle of a lettuce field, and a couple protesting that the local council has buried their baby daughter in a pauper’s grave without permission. As Dryden pieces the clues together, he realizes that the three cases may be related after all . . .
Set against the backdrop of World War II, the narrative unfolds in Cambridge during the spring of 1941, where the public bomb shelters serve as a refuge for the city's residents. The story begins with the discovery of a young man's body in the Trinity Shelter, highlighting the grim realities of wartime life. The crowded and chaotic atmosphere of the shelters reflects the struggles faced by the poor, as they navigate the dangers and uncertainties of their daily existence amidst the ongoing conflict.
After seventeen years of abandonment for military training, the once crime-free hamlet of Jude's Ferry is disrupted when reporter Philip Dryden joins the Territorial Army. Its peaceful history is shattered during an exercise in the deserted village.
After a bombing in Cambridge, D I Eden Brooke finds the body of Nora Wylde, two fingers on her left hand severed. When Nora's granddaughter goes missing, Brooke's suspicions are aroused.
Cambridge, 1940. It is the first winter of the war, and snow is falling. When an evacuee drowns in the river, his body swept away, Detective Inspector Eden Brooke sets out to investigate what seems to be a deliberate attack. As more riddles come to light, can Brooke solve the mystery before a second attack claims a famous victim?
When a reader contacts local newspaper The Crow to report a rare sighting of the Boreal, or 'Funeral' Owl, journalist Philip Dryden has a sense of foreboding. For the Funeral Owl is said to be an omen of death. In the violent and terrible week that follows, the sighting of the owl proves prophetic in more ways than one.
A man lies hidden in an abandoned boat. Stifling screams, he draws a knife across his arm, letting the blood flow free. Soon he'll be dead - and life can begin again. Three decades later Declan McIlroy, a 39-year-old loner, is found frozen to death in his flat as Arctic temperatures grip the cathedral city of Ely. His is not the only cold death that winter, but nevertheless reporter Philip Dryden has worrying doubts - for it seems Declan may not have been alone as he slowly froze to death . . . Dryden's suspicions harden when days later he finds the body of Declan's best friend Joe - frozen within a shell of ice on the doorstep of his secluded Fenland farmhouse. Soon Dryden is picking his way along a disturbing trail of cruelty and betrayal to a brilliantly executed crime. And to a chilling, half-remembered mystery from his own childhood . . .
Philip Dryden is witness to Maggie Beck's deathbed confession, and a tragic plane crash 27 year previously, suddenly becomes the focus of a murder investigation.
At 5.15 p.m. Harvey Ellis was trapped - stranded in a line of eight cars by a blizzard on a Norfolk coast road.At 8.15 p.m. Harvey Ellis was dead - viciously stabbed at the wheel of his truck.And his killer has achieved the impossible: striking without being seen, and without leaving a single footprint in the snow . . .For DI Peter Shaw and DS George Valentine it's only the start of an infuriating investigation. The crime scene is melting, the murderer has vanished, the witnesses are dropping like flies. And the body count is on the rise . . .
