Filling Spaces

by Stan Hey

He spent 6 months in Earlestoke prison for a crime he did commit; breaking the Official Secrets Act, by exposing a top-secret Home Office study. Aprice any investigative journalist worth his salt is prepared to pay. He retreats to Bradford onAvon, trying to rebuild both his working life and his marriage, but the past refuses to go away. People - ordinary people, with no voice, no protection, no money - still write to him with their pleas for help, One, written ina scratchy, spidery scrawl, brings Frank to an old peoples home, suspecting a simple crime, only to discover that something more serious has taken place; murder, but this is no ordinary killing - it reaches down the years.

222 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Nigel Henry · Rating 5 out of 5]

This initially presents as a rather low key Dick Francis, although I thoroughly enjoyed the charming local detail and the vivid characters. From about 2/3 of the way through it gets far more gripping, carrying the reader into a series of unexpected plot twists and turns that justify the second edition.
I'll be looking out the other books in the series as soon as the Bradford-on-Avon bookshop reopens!

Thoroughly enjoyed it :)