WINNER OF THE 2016 CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY A bullet-ridden body is unearthed from a buried WW2 plane
- but the body isn't from WW2 Dr Ruth Galloway must discover who the victim was & who put him there in this atmospheric mystery for fans of Val Mc Dermid & Ann Cleeves' An almost gothic plot involving family feuds & a crumbling stately home one of the most vivid novels in a delightful series' Sunday Times When DCI Harry Nelson calls Ruth Galloway in to investigate a body found inside a buried fighter plane she quickly realizes that the skeleton couldn't possibly be the pilot DNA tests identify the man as Fred Blackstock a local aristocrat who had been reported dead at sea Events are further complicated by a TV company that wants to make a film about Norfolk's deserted air force bases the so-called Ghost Fields which have been partially converted into a pig farm run by one of the younger remaining Blackstocks Then human bones are found on the farm & as the greatest storm Norfolk has seen for decades brews in the distance another Blackstock is attacked Can the team outrace the rising flood to find the killer?