The Ghost Fields

Winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library 2016. A bullet-riddled corpse is unearthed from a buried World War II plane, but the body does not belong to that era. Dr. Ruth Galloway must uncover who the victim was and who brought them there in this atmospheric crime novel for fans of Val McDermid and Ann Cleeves.

"An almost gothic plot that encompasses family feuds and a decaying manor... one of the liveliest novels in a wonderful series," Sunday Times.

When DCI Harry Nelson calls Ruth Galloway to investigate a body found inside a buried hunting plane, she quickly realizes that the skeleton cannot possibly be the pilot. DNA tests identify the man as Fred Blackstock, a local aristocrat reported dead at sea.

The situation becomes further complicated by a television company wanting to film a documentary about Norfolk's abandoned air force bases, known as the Ghost Fields, some of which have been partially converted into a pig farm run by one of the younger remaining Blackstocks.

Then, human bones are discovered on the farm, and as the biggest storm Norfolk has seen in decades looms in the distance, another Blackstock is attacked. Can the team beat the rising tide to catch the murderer?.