Grand Depart

Yorkshire Dales Mystery #7

by Susan Parry

As the Yorkshire Grand Départ approaches, the roads through Wensleydale and Swaledale are increasingly popular with cyclists. But when Anna Rycroft disappears on the Etape du Dales route without trace and a serious accident occurs on Buttertubs Pass, suspicions are raised. Is it a coincidence or is there a more sinister cause in the run up to the Tour de France?

Meanwhile young crime researcher, Ruby, is monitoring the activities of the 'Campaign Against the Tour' which threatens to disrupt this prestigious race and Mills struggles to retain her job at the university when her forensic work brings her into conflict with an eminent colleague.

271 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 9, 2014

About the author

I am the author of a series of crime novels set in the Yorkshire Dales, featuring Mills Sanderson a young woman trained as a forensic archaeologist. I fell in love with the Dales thirty years ago and enjoy researching the villages and fells for the books. Sense of place is an important aspect of my work. I am a university professor with experience of forensic analysis that informs my writing and I take my research for the books very seriously. There are currently eleven books in the series .

Reviews

[Helen Birkbeck · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another good mix of plot lines, well interwoven, with surprises and excitement.