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Office for the Dead
Second in the DC Martin Webb trilogy.
It's mid-September 2004 in Worcestershire's normally peaceful town of Malvern, and newly-promoted DC Martin Webb is helping his widowed father move on from prison to a new life, when he learns of an apparently motiveless shooting of a local crane driver at Portsmouth Docks.
He and his boss, DI Alan Manson soon realise there is far more to this case than their unhelpful counterparts realise. Why was the man shot, and why did one of the crates destined for France contain the mutilated body of a naked young man with a Pater Noster rosary bead in his rectum.
Despite his newly-pregnant girlfriend Dora's fears, French-speaking Martin is sent to investigate and soon becomes embroiled in an ever-darkening web of secrecy and terror. Could that butchered victim b connected to a secretive Seminary, tucked away amongst vineyards in the Aude? Its outwardly saintly but shadowy, controlling Director an American with a new name, skilled in remote viewing with only evil in mind. His real mission disguised by prayer and study. Save for a few chosen ones...
Martin must discover who really was that victim in that crate? And why? And with yet more horrors to come, can his and Dora's love prove strong enough to survive?
It's mid-September 2004 in Worcestershire's normally peaceful town of Malvern, and newly-promoted DC Martin Webb is helping his widowed father move on from prison to a new life, when he learns of an apparently motiveless shooting of a local crane driver at Portsmouth Docks.
He and his boss, DI Alan Manson soon realise there is far more to this case than their unhelpful counterparts realise. Why was the man shot, and why did one of the crates destined for France contain the mutilated body of a naked young man with a Pater Noster rosary bead in his rectum.
Despite his newly-pregnant girlfriend Dora's fears, French-speaking Martin is sent to investigate and soon becomes embroiled in an ever-darkening web of secrecy and terror. Could that butchered victim b connected to a secretive Seminary, tucked away amongst vineyards in the Aude? Its outwardly saintly but shadowy, controlling Director an American with a new name, skilled in remote viewing with only evil in mind. His real mission disguised by prayer and study. Save for a few chosen ones...
Martin must discover who really was that victim in that crate? And why? And with yet more horrors to come, can his and Dora's love prove strong enough to survive?
480 pages, Paperback
First published June 8, 2020
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