"First published in 2019 by Severn House Publishers Ltd, London."--Title page verso.
Format:
Book
Abstract:
Cumbria, 1967. Grieving the loss of her son, Cordelia Hemlock is in a village graveyard when lightning strikes a tumbledown tomb - and gives her a glimpse of a new corpse that doesn't belong among the crumbling bones. But when the body vanishes, the authorities refuse to believe some hysterical outsider. Cordelia persuades Felicity Goose, the only other person to have seen the corpse, to join her investigation. But the villagers don't take kindly to their interference. There are those who believe the village's secrets should remain buried ... whatever the cost.
Subject:
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Meurtre -- Enquêtes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Murder -- Investigation.
Cumbria (England) -- Fiction.
Cumbria (Angleterre) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
England -- Cumbria.
Detective and mystery stories.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Psychological fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Fiction.
Mystery fiction
Summary:
Cumbria, 1967. Grieving the loss of her son, Cordelia Hemlock is in a village graveyard when lightning strikes a tumbledown tomb - and gives her a glimpse of a new corpse that doesn't belong among the crumbling bones. But when the body vanishes, the authorities refuse to believe some hysterical outsider. Cordelia persuades Felicity Goose, the only other person to have seen the corpse, to join her investigation. But the villagers don't take kindly to their interference. There are those who believe the village's secrets should remain buried ... whatever the cost.