An Air That Kills (The Lydmouth Series)
by Andrew Taylor | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0340617136 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0340617136 Global Overview for this book
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"Lydmouth is a picturesque market town on the borders of England and Wales. To it comes Jill Francis, journalist, onlooker and outsider. It is the week before Remembrance Sunday and Jill has her own tragic reasons for knowing that November is the month of the dead.
When workmen demolishing an old inn discover the pitiful remains of a newborn baby in a disused privby, Jill becomes an unwilling partner in Detective Inspector Thornhill's investigation. The case stretches bnack to a celebrated Victorian murder trial, and forward to the more recent past. Its ramifications spread like a cancer through the close-knit provincial community and old wounds begin to bleed again..."
"Lydmouth is a picturesque market town on the borders of England and Wales. To it comes Jill Francis, journalist, onlooker and outsider. It is the week before Remembrance Sunday and Jill has her own tragic reasons for knowing that November is the month of the dead.
When workmen demolishing an old inn discover the pitiful remains of a newborn baby in a disused privby, Jill becomes an unwilling partner in Detective Inspector Thornhill's investigation. The case stretches bnack to a celebrated Victorian murder trial, and forward to the more recent past. Its ramifications spread like a cancer through the close-knit provincial community and old wounds begin to bleed again..."