Carol S. (waucondacarol) reviewed on 4/3/2017 + 319 more book reviews

Two mystery novels in this book. In 1940 the home guard is digging trenches preparing for a maybe German invasion. An skeleton is unearth and proves to be a man who disappeared during the First World War. He was suspected of murdering his friend over a woman they both wanted and then running off. Now the police must rethink their theory of the first murder and look for the real killer. In the second novel, a practitioner called a bone setter is found murdered. He was beloved in the town and people came from wide around for treatment. The new local doctor who is an inept alcoholic is losing patients to the bone setter and threatens him. Soon other strange characters are in the eyes of the police when another murder occurs. Both are really intriguing stories.

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