River Deep (A & B Crime)
Publisher: Allison & Busby LTD
Published: March 21, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780749006532
Subjects: Crime & mystery; Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Mystery/Suspense; Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
First sentence: Nature is a free spirit.
Description: One of the most idyllic towns in England, Shrewsbury is usually a very placid place. But when the River Severn bursts its banks, nature can turn ugly. Coroner Martha Gunn is among the first to be called to the scene when a man's body is found in a small cottage fronting the river. Floating face-down in the rising water, it appears to have been raised from the cellar by the flood. In the dark fetid cottage, Martha's instincts tell her that this is a homicide--a hunch borne out by the post mortem. But there are many questions about the dead man's identity.