Book description
The brutal murder of a promiscuous young wife and the disappearance
of her baby son bring Superintendent Amos Hawke and Sergeant Tom
Churchyard to a tiny moorland village in nineteenth-century Cornwall,
where the residents harbour dark secrets. The two policemen believe
the murderer will be found within the isolated and insular community,
but unravelling the tangled web of lies and deceit proves frustrating.
Is the answer to the mystery held by the young gypsy girl whose
appearance on the scene has disturbing ramifications for Tom Churchyard?
"E. V. Thompson was born in London, After spending nine years in
the Royal Navy, he served as a Vice Squad policeman in Bristol, became
an investigator for British Overseas Airways (during which time he was
seconded to the Hong Kong Police Narcotics Bureau), then headed
Rhodesia's Department of Civil Aviation Security Section. While in
Rhodesia, he published over two hundred short stories before moving back
to England to become a full-time award-winning writer. His first novel,
Chase the Wind, the opening book in the Retallick saga, won the Best
Historical Novel Award, and since then more than thirty novels have won
him thousands of admirers around the world. "
