A dedicated man is dead in the Yorkshire dales--a former university
professor, wealthy historian and archaeologist who loved his adopted
village.
A dedicated man is dead in the Yorkshire dales--a former university
professor, wealthy historian and archaeologist who loved his adopted
village. It is a particularly heinous slaying, considering the high esteem
which the victim, Harry Steadman, was held by his neighbors
colleagues--by everyone, it seems, except the one person who
bludgeoned the life out of the respected scholar and left him
buried in a farmer's field.
Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks left the violence of Lone
behind for what he hoped would be the peaceful life of a country
policeman. But the brutality of Steadman's murder only reinforces the
ugly, indisputable truth: that evil can flourish in even the most bucolic
of settings. There are dangerous secrets hidden in the history of the
remote Yorkshire community that have already led to one death. A
Banks will have to plumb a dark and shocking local past to find
way to a killer.. before yesterday's sins cause more blood to be shed.