Book description
For seventeen years, the Cambridgeshire hamlet of Jude's Ferry has
lain abandoned, requisitioned by the Government for military training.
In its thousand-year-old history, it had been famous for one thing -
never having recorded a single crime.
But when local reporter Philip Dryden joins the Territorial Army on
exercise in the empty village, its spotless history is literally blown
apart. For the TA's shells reveal a hidden cellar beneath the old pub.
And inside the cellar hangs a skeleton, a noose around its neck . . .
Two days later, a man is pulled from the reeds in the river near Ely
- he has no idea who he is or how he got there. But he knows the words
'Jude's Ferry' are important, and he knows he is afraid...
A significant new talent Jim Kelly is the author of
The Coldest
Blood, The Fire Baby
,
The Moon Tunnel
and
The Water Clock
, which was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Award. He lives in Ely.
