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One fateful night, while on a business trip, James Connor picks up a flirtatious girl in a hotel bar.
Three days later he is arrested for her murder.
Rebecca Main has been found strangled in a ditch outside her house, inches away from where Connor had dropped her off the night before.
All the evidence points against him and the police refuse to listen to his story.
Connor is sentenced to seven years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
On his release Connor is a bitter man, determined to prove his innocence and bring down the policeman he blames for his arrest.
He returns to the scene of the crime and does some investigating of his own.
But he soon discovers that the town holds many more secrets than he first thought.
And the more Connor discovers, the more danger he is in himself...
'A perfectly plotted story that is both chilling and memorable.' - Robert Foster, best-selling author of The Lunar Code
'Like all Mr Straker's books, keeps the reader baffled with its unexpected twist and turns' - The Daily Telegraph
'Mr Straker is one of a comparatively small number of writers who produce what may be called 'the typical British detective story', strong in plot and character drawing and with a minimum of violence and brutality' - Current Literature
'J. F. Straker thinks up ingenious plots for his books and in the class of story which he writes (a mixture between the whodunit and the thriller) ingenuity of plot counts for a lot' - Wolverhampton Express
'A gripping page-turner than kept me guessing to the last page.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of Trade Off
J F Straker was born in Farnborough, Kent and lived in Sussex. During the war he served with The Buffs and on the General Staff and then became a schoolmaster. His interest in writing began at an early age but it was not until the war when he had to spend long periods in the desert with very little distraction that he completed his first novel. He was the author of twenty-five novels including Murder of Miss Emily and Death on a Sunday Morning.
Genre: Mystery
Three days later he is arrested for her murder.
Rebecca Main has been found strangled in a ditch outside her house, inches away from where Connor had dropped her off the night before.
All the evidence points against him and the police refuse to listen to his story.
Connor is sentenced to seven years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
On his release Connor is a bitter man, determined to prove his innocence and bring down the policeman he blames for his arrest.
He returns to the scene of the crime and does some investigating of his own.
But he soon discovers that the town holds many more secrets than he first thought.
And the more Connor discovers, the more danger he is in himself...
Praise for J F Straker
'A perfectly plotted story that is both chilling and memorable.' - Robert Foster, best-selling author of The Lunar Code
'Like all Mr Straker's books, keeps the reader baffled with its unexpected twist and turns' - The Daily Telegraph
'Mr Straker is one of a comparatively small number of writers who produce what may be called 'the typical British detective story', strong in plot and character drawing and with a minimum of violence and brutality' - Current Literature
'J. F. Straker thinks up ingenious plots for his books and in the class of story which he writes (a mixture between the whodunit and the thriller) ingenuity of plot counts for a lot' - Wolverhampton Express
'A gripping page-turner than kept me guessing to the last page.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of Trade Off
J F Straker was born in Farnborough, Kent and lived in Sussex. During the war he served with The Buffs and on the General Staff and then became a schoolmaster. His interest in writing began at an early age but it was not until the war when he had to spend long periods in the desert with very little distraction that he completed his first novel. He was the author of twenty-five novels including Murder of Miss Emily and Death on a Sunday Morning.
Genre: Mystery
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