Publisher's Synopsis
For 17 years, the hamlet of Jude's Ferry has lain abandoned, requisitioned for military training in 1990. The isolated, 1000-year-old community was famous for one thing - never having recorded a single crime. But when local reporter Philip Dryden joins the Territorial Army on exercise there, its spotless history is blown apart. The TA's shells reveal a hidden cellar beneath the old pub - and there hangs a skeleton, a noose around its neck. Two days later, a man is pulled from the reeds in the river near Ely - he has no idea who he is or how he got there. But he knows the words "Jude's Ferry" are important, and he knows he's afraid...
