The distant dead6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() 'In the best traditions of the classic whodunnit, this is Midsomer Murders for grown-ups' Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express Thomson's plots are original and she draws her characters with genuine affection' Sunday Times 'One of the most original characters in British crime fiction. 'Lesley Thomson gets better and better' Ian Rankin ![]() Praise for The Detective's Daughter series: But when this man dies in her arms, Stella, impelled to root out evil when she finds it, becomes determined to hunt down his killer and to bring the secrets he was searching for into the light. Stella Darnell has moved to Tewkesbury to escape from death, not to court it. He was investigating the murder of a 1940s police pathologist – had he come closer to the truth than he realised? He is the creator of a true-crime podcast which now will never air. None of them imagined that a trusting young woman was being strangled by her lover.īeneath the vast stone arches of Tewkesbury Abbey, a man lies bleeding, close to death. Another said it wasn't his business what went on behind closed doors. One told the detective she thought the lady had seen a mouse. Several neighbours heard the scream of the woman in the bombed-out house. From the number 1 bestselling author of The Detective's Daughter. ![]() A tragic casualty of the Blitz? Or something more sinister? Sixty years later, the detective's daughter unearths the truth. ![]()
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