From beneath a wartime POW camp near Ely, Deep in the Cambridgeshire Fens, a man crawls through an escape tunnel, But he won't emerge until fifty years of peace have passed...
When he does, unearthed by archaeologists seeking a saxon burial tomb, local journalist philip Dryden knows he has a mystery to solve. First the man appears to have been shot in the head-and second, he was breaking into the camp not out.
The police treat the body as an historical curiosity, but Dryden digs deeper-and soon unearths a corpse of much more recent origin...
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JIM KELLY, Summer, 1976. A plane crashes on a farm in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Out of the flames walks young Maggie Beck, clutching a baby in her arms...
Twenty-seven years later, investigative journalist Philip Dryden -visiting his wife, Laura, in hospital - is witness to Maggie's deathbed confession. But some secrets are best kept secret, and what started out for Dryden as a small and curious story about the only survivor of an almost-forgotten plane crash soon escalates into a full-blown murder investigation.
And while Dryden is wondering what other secrets Maggie carried, his semi-conscious wife is trying to tell him something that might just save his life...
'Quirky, emotionally intelligent crime fiction that leaves the reader hungry for more' Val McDermid.
'A good, atmospheric read. There's a lot to enjoy.., sense of place is terrific: the fens really brood... Dryden is satisfyingly complicated…the plot hits all the right notes' Observer
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