In 1874 Joseph Palmer, a signalman on the London and Western Railway, is wrongfully sent to prison for manslaughter after a railway inferno claims twenty-one lives.
In 1946 an old lady confesses a terrible crime of vengeance to her great nephew.
In 2018, young Alex Phipps, one of Joseph’s descendants, finds an old file his father had made about the accident. Father and son investigate further and discover a tale of conspiracy and murder which still echoes around the old village of Salmsham.
With the help of Roger Cooper and his daughter Vicky (who still live in the village) and a large railway model of the old station and surroundings at Salmsham, they find enough evidence for the police to open an historical murder enquiry,
but by clearing the name of one ancestor, they may have tarnished others…
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At the 1937 Abbots Park Gold Trophy race for Grand Prix cars, two young boys, Toby and Harry, are hit by a wayward car as it plunges over the side of a gorge. Harry is killed, and the driver is missing presumed drowned.
Years later, Toby sees the driver’s ghost in a crowded Silverstone race paddock. No-one else sees it, and over the next twenty years it appears to Toby several times, always vanishing without trace.
In 2019 Toby, now an old man, relates his ghost story to his great grand niece Hazel Burns, and her boyfriend Alex Phipps. They decide to investigate further, and uncover an historical web of deception and murder which begins in pre-war France and has repercussions today…
Is there a killer still on the loose?
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A school trip ends in tragedy when 14-year-old Patrick Skeete slips and fall to his death. The trauma of the experience draws the small group of youngsters closer together, then a few years later the group suffers another loss as Lorna Vernon dies on holiday during a mountaineering trip.
Over the next twenty years, more tragedies affect the group until Derek Ashley and Annelise Dillon are the only two left. Annelise mentions this in passing to her niece Hazel Burns. Fresh from solving another historical mystery, Hazel and her boyfriend Alex Phipps investigate further and discover a chilling pattern of supposedly accidental deaths.
To fit the pattern, another death must be imminent. The trouble is, who is the victim and who is the killer?
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It’s the summer of 2020 and young Sarah Pumphrey is volunteering with the Salmsham Heritage Railway project since her GCSEs were cancelled due to the pandemic. Sarah also takes a keen interest in the excavations of nearby Belcote medieval village, but when she notices some unusual activity at the site, she decides to investigate further. However, Sarah is being followed, and then vanishes without trace. Mark Phipps and his son Alex are asked to help find her.
Alex decides to volunteer in her place, and is joined by his girlfriend Hazel Burns, who works with the excavation team by day. Between them they uncover an historic link to a human trafficking gang, fronted by a respectable member of the local community.
Shunned by the police due to a lack of evidence, they begin to close in on the truth, but are cornered as they make a gruesome discovery…
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