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The Path of the Dead by Caroline Benton
A Crime Thriller
Publisher: Endeavour Press
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A middle of the night call to a burnt-out house is pretty much routine for the Devon Fire Brigade photographer Gus Tavender. Discovering a charred body locked in a secret room is not. But from that moment on, very little in her life can be classed as routine.
The following day, while filming on Dartmoor, she meets Judith, an old acquaintance from college days. The reunion can hardly be described as cordial, so Gus is surprised when, a few days later, a letter arrives, inviting her to visit. But Judith has an agenda. She is determined to learn the truth about her aunt's death. The old lady fell into a quarry while walking on the moor — a tragic accident, according to the police. But Judith believes otherwise. In her aunt's remote house she has found diaries which leave little doubt the old woman was living in fear of her life. Delusion? Not if subsequent events are anything to go by.
Persuaded to help, Gus begins to make enquiries, leading her to suspect a connection between the old lady's death and the body in the locked room. But there are darker forces out there than even she imagines, and before long Gus is plunged into a nightmare world of corruption and violence — a world that someone, somewhere, will go to any lengths to protect …
— The Path of the Dead by Caroline Benton
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