Book description
Strange things are happening in the remote village of Hadley Dale.
Without warning, a TV crew invades the district to shoot a commercial.
Without reason, tales of extra-terrestrial sightings spring up. And
without a clue, Matthew Longden's robust “housekeeper” friend disappears
- in the same way his wife did five years ago. Assigned to find the
missing woman, the unpredictable Mosley bicycles through the Lancashire
countryside. Side-tracked by TV mischief-makers, cricket matches, and
rumours of a buried body. Mosley is stopped in his leisurely tracks by a
shocking death. By prying information from the locals and raising
hackles at headquarters, deceptively brilliant Mosley soon unravels an
intricate tapestry of delusions, disappearances, and death to neatly tie
up a most malicious murder. 'Here is the eagerly awaited sequel to
Murder, Mr Mosley, the kind of solid, sophisticated and adroitly plotted
mystery that British authors do supremely well . . . A rare good time.'
Publishers Weekly 'John Greenwood . . . makes Inspector Mosley a very
real human being, one with genuine authority despite his rural ways, one
who has the instincts of a bulldog and . . . and occasional bite of
sardonic humor' New York Times John Greenwood is the pseudonym of John
Buxton Hilton was born in 1921 in Buxton, Derbyshire. After his war
service in the army he became an Inspector of schools, before retiring
in 1970 to take up full-time writing. Hilton wrote two books on language
teaching as well as being a prolific crime writer - his works include
the Superintendent Simon Kenworthy series and the Inspector Thomas Brunt
series, as well as the Inspector Mosley series as John Greenwood.
