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Detective Constable Ben Cooper is not having a good day. It is winter in Edendale and the first snowfall has caused traffic gridlock in town. He left the farm early in order to avoid the worst of it so he missed his breakfast, and now, in town, he spots a suspect in an assault on two men in front of the cafe, so he will have no breakfast to start this day. Meanwhile, a young woman is lying on a hillside, just below Irontongue Hill, near the wreck of a WW II Lancaster, frozen to death, partially covered by snow. A couple sit in their house barely speaking to each other. The women is convinced something has happened to their son Andrew. The man insists that he has returned to London. The man's father had been one of the Polish freedom fighters assigned to that very Lancaster. He was only one of 2 men to walk away from that very crash. The Derbyshire snowplows are clearing the roads near Irontongue when one of them turns up the body of a well dressed man. The Edendale force is under strength so Sergeant Diane Fry takes the lead in the case of the body found on the road, looking for clues to his identity and the reason for his murder. Meanwhile, Cooper is asked to explain to Canadian Alison Morrissey why they cannot help her search for clues to her grandfather's disappearance. He had been the pilot of that Lancaster and, in 1945, it had been assumed that he caused the crash, stole the payroll money they had been carrying, and went off somewhere to live. While all this is going on, Cooper, using his local knowledge, keeps insisting that all the cases are related somehow. Fry, who cannot understand Ben's popularity, keeps pushing for him to drop the WW II part and concentrate on the current cases. But Ben goes his own way and insists that the roots of the current crimes do go back to WW II. Booth keeps getting stronger with each entry. Do go back and read BLACK DOG and DANCING WITH THE VIRGINS first if you haven't already. Although each book does stand alone, the characters do evolve. Note: This review is based on the UK edition from HarperCollins available from Crime in Store (CrimeBks@aol.com) or your favorite independent bookseller
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, November 2002
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