BODY ON THE TRAIN

In the darkness before dawn in 1929, a London railway porter discovers a man's body as he unloads a special goods train from Yorkshire, all means of identification stripped away. Scotland Yard call on indomitable sleuth Kate Shackleton, hoping her local Yorkshire knowledge and undoubted skills at winkling out information will produce the results they need. Fears of unrest in the Yorkshire coalfields mean that Kate must conduct her investigation with the utmost secrecy. She discovers that another murder occurred around the same time as the mysterious body on the train and is convinced there must be a connection. She begins to uncover the truth, but with attempts made on her life she needs all her strength and resourcefulness before she becomes the next victim. With period detail, from the popular series. 376pp in paperback.