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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.

Philip Dryden is reporting on an archaeological dig at the old POW camp, when a body is uncovered. But there is something odd: the man appears to have been shot in the head, and the position indicates that he was trying to get into the camp, not escape it. It's a puzzle which excites Dryden far more than the archaeologists or the police.

Nella miglior tradizione del giallo classico, "Trappola bianca" si apre con un enigma apparentemente inspiegabile: il conducente di una delle nove automobili bloccate da una tempesta di neve in un'aspra località del Norfolk viene ucciso al volante da un misterioso assassino in grado di svanire senza lasciare la minima traccia. Nessuno degli altri guidatori ha visto né udito niente. L'ispettore Shaw e il sergente Valentine - intrappolati a loro...

When the newspapers turn up to cover Ruby Bright's 100th birthday, they find her seaside care home is a murder scene. Someone spirited Ruby away by wheelchair to the water's edge and strangled her. But why kill a harmless centurion? As Shaw and Valentine investigate, it's clear Ruby wasn't the first victim - and nor is she the last.

When an explosion rips across Hunstanton Beach, an abandoned WWII bomb is assumed to be the cause - but is it? At the same time, detectives Shaw and Valentine are on the hunt for an elderly female killer with a uniquely macabre method of despatch. And a Dutch engineer is missing, presumed drowned. Three unrelated investigations - but are they?

Crime fiction sequel to the critically acclamied "The Water Clock". Will appeal to fans of P.D. James.

For seventeen years, the hamlet of Jude's Ferry has lain abandoned. But when local reporter Philip Dryden joins the army on exercise in the empty village, a shocking discovery is made: a human skeleton, a noose around its neck ...

Within this work are uplifting words and concepts which could help readers develop the habit of sprinkling a little verbal spice in their conversations.

Rookie detective Peter Shaw teams up with his father's tough ex-partner to investigate a gruesome series of present-day murders along with some unfinished business from the past.

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