thriller mystery

With successful convictions from his last bomb are in the bag, Greg Geldard might be forgiven for anticipating a period of quiet routine. He doesn’t get it. Threats to a government laboratory and danger for someone close to him make life complicated. Then he’s posed an ethical conundrum in court. Can hate ever be wholly sane?

When the body of a farm worker is found during a turkey cull, the incident falls to DCI Greg Geldard to investigate. Newly promoted and newly transferred from North Yorkshire to Norfolk, he is about to face the most challenging case of his career. As he uncovers evidence of organised crime and modern slavery, the body count rises, a friend is threatened and he struggles to bring the murderer to justice.

Goat farmer, cheese maker and weaver Tristan Smith is working on her North Yorkshire smallholding when a chance visit by archaeologists exposes a skeleton in an abandoned WW2 bunker. But it’s not a wartime casualty. Tristan becomes involved in the search for the truth about her predecessors, as DI Geldard follows a trail from North Yorkshire to the Norfolk Broads. He is seeking justice for a long-dead victim; but another casualty is hunting for a new life and a safe place to start again.