It starts with just a missing person, a much loved missing person, one who served with great purpose during WWII. Vera Bodine might be elderly, and a shut-in, but her mind was as sharp as ever, and perhaps that's the reason she is missing. She knows things, all kinds of things, about a local law firm, about a recent murder, and about Nazi spies. As always, Pentecost and Parker are on the trail, but events from their pasts will sidetrack them, making this adventure: Murder Crossed Her Mind, by Stephen Spotswood, hard to put down. It is the fourth Pentecost and Parker Mystery.

A body has been found. On Halloween. In the forest. The number 37 is tattooed on the sole of one foot. Detective Norman has a new boss (we can only hope it's temporary), who is convinced it's the local 'pagans' who held a ritual in the forest that night. He is SURE the case is solved and closed. It's not, and his interference is not helping. The Body in the Forest is the seventh in the West Wales Murder Mystery series by P.F. Ford.

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