Showing results by author "Jack Cartwright" in All Categories

When a violent summer storm hits the Lincolnshire Wolds, the tiny village of Bag Enderby falls foul of the devastating deluge. Homes are flooded, fallen trees lie across the winding lanes, and in one picturesque valley, a terrible secret is unearthed – a woman’s body is discovered floating among the debris.

A ninety-eight-year-old landowner being found dead in his home comes as no surprise to DCI Charles Cook. But the way that Hugo Garfield died is beyond suspicious - hanging from a chandelier in his sprawling Lincolnshire country estate. As DCI Cook and his team delve into the victim's darkand twisted past, it soon becomes clear that not only did Hugo Garfield have more than a few enemies, but the motive for his murder could lie buried deep in the past.

When a man’s body is discovered at a wedding in rural Lincolnshire, the celebrations come to a premature end. The day, for better or for worse, would be a day nobody would ever forget. Detective Inspector George Larson is enjoying the sea air with his wife when the call comes through. Grace, his childhood sweetheart, has been reduced to little more than a smiling shell by a terrible mental disease. And as he leaves her at the care home to attend the crime scene, forty years of memories play like old reruns in his mind.